• Emerald (she/her)@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    That’s not really a good take though. You don’t need to be intelligent or social to be worthy of the moral consideration to not be eaten. Otherwise we’d be eating babies.

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zoneBanned from community
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      2 years ago

      Yeah, that doesn’t logically follow. Nobody said it’s the one, singular consideration.

      You’re comparing a species of animal (whale) to the age of an animal (baby). Two completely different things…