Posted: Aug 03, 2016 12:13 pm
Not sure how a discussion of what morality/ethics is can derail a thread which purports to prescribe a behavior on ethical grounds. One of the questions which should rightly be dealt with in this thread is why veganism should be considered more ethical, or why "carnism" should be considered less ethical. And while we're trying to determine degrees of fitness in a category, it serves to be clear about what that category is, what its rules are, and how the category space is laid out. What is category "ethics?" As long as we're dealing with the question as related to the topic, it's topical.
Also, while the question of "free will" certainly has interesting ramifications for ethics, I don't see why every discussion of ethics ought to be roped into the topic of free will. It feels like a categorical inversion to me. Ethics is bigger than free will.