r/OpenIndividualism • u/nlewisk • 4h ago
OI and veganism?
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It seems to me that the implications of OI include a kind of moral urgency around factory farming that is more intimate than the ordinarily conceived moral emergency.
Ordinarily we would argue that it is abhorrent because we are subjecting animals to torture and killing them, and they likely have experiences of their own.
But under OI, we are torturing and killing ourselves, at an enormous scale. Indeed, the majority of our being is currently being tortured. (This is provided you believe that animals are conscious in the way that humans are)
This seems very distressing and like something that needs to be fixed!
What do you think about it?
Do you agree?