I cannot go along with this shendai – the fact this is seen as a ‘path of least resistance’ is precisely what reveals it as psychopathic. Q - What is it that resists psychopathy, in those who are not psychopathic? A – natural empathy, the intrinsic, undeniable recognition of the fundamental oneness of life. For those with natural empathy (i.e. non-psychopathic), there is huge resistance to reducing animals to ‘expediency, convenience’. The fact this tendency is so ubiquitous is a strong clue to the prevalence of the problem of psychopathy. You suggest that there is the possibility of reasoned debate regarding whether suffering can be inflicted ‘in the name of food, medical research…’ – well, we can reason and debate about pretty much anything, but all-too-often the detachment of reason, arbitrarily bracketed from the utterly legitimate data input of natural empathy, is precisely what reinforces the psychopathic mindset in the first place. Huge caution is needed here, and I’m yet to read a ‘reasoned’ justification of such behaviours that didn’t strike me as crude, question-begging, and fundamentally juvenile and self-serving. So I disagree, I don’t believe for one moment that we will, one day, grow to become a more empathetic species. Putting it off to a vague future time is yet more reasoned ‘convenience’; ours is a quite different challenge, an ‘empathetic species’ is precisely our fundamental nature, the challenge is to wake up to who we are right now. Db
RE: UK Gov. Operated By Psychopaths: Effectively Declares Animal Emotion, Sentience & Pain is Irrelevant