lol'd at 1:38
Ok, so then bees do go through some pain in order for us to have honey. I'm still pretty ok with using them like this. Nothing to do with whether I think they're sentient. I just don't empathize with them so I don't mind.
Originally I was thinking this might be the barrier that prevents us from ever seeing eye to eye. Because if one of us empathizes with insects and the other doesn't, there's pretty little we can do to reconcile our values. But it sounds like you don't really empathize with insects, but maybe instead you avoid harming them out of some moral principal that nothing sentient should be harmed. I'll pick up where I left off on your other comment.
Let me ask you this: if you had absolutely no need to kill an insect/bee, do you think it would be wrong to kill it?
No. For the same reason I wouldn't have a problem killing an animal I didn't need to kill. Which thread should we be in? This one or ?
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