Most cruelty that humans unleash animals can be captured into following three philosophical buckets:
1. Qualia Problem: John and Tom have seen roses, and smelt them. But when they try to explain the “rose-ness of a rose” both their internal experiences of rose being different; their explanations can differ drastically or worse they cannot even explain it. Nevertheless, both John and Tom are both confident about their explanations.
2. Philosophical Zombie: John has seen roses, and smelt them. Tom has never seen a rose in his life. But Tom is confident and never shuns away from giving a detailed explanation of a rose.
3. Chinese Room Argument: Neither John nor Tom have seen a rose in their life. But both John and Tom are extremely confident and never shuns away from giving a detailed explanation of a rose.
Billions of humans have no rudimentary understanding of our fellow animal family members nor they have the epistemic humility to say “I don’t know” and make an attempt to learn about them.
This self-induced convenience makes them amoral against animals. This is the sad state of our planet.
The value is:
Start saying “I don’t know”.
Next, every living being on this planet is capable of pain and suffering.
There is no other measure of morality than to ask yourself - I am causing pain and suffering to other animals?
It is that simple to shift your conscience from being amoral to being moral toward our fellow animal family.
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