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Some questions for vegans.
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Moral questions for veganism

Hypothetically, you are a vegan with an iPhone.

Your choice to become a vegan was because you determined it to be morally correct.

Your moral evaluation is based primarily on two considerations

  • That factory farming is harming the environment
  • That treating animals inhumanely is, well, inhumane

You bought your iPhone because it is shiny and rad.

Of iPhones, the following things can be said pretty convincingly

  • The factories these iPhones are heavily polluting and are harming the environment 1
  • The workers in these factories are being treated, well, fairly inhumanely 2

The Main Questions

QUESTION 1 As this hypothetical vegan, are you acting morally correctly?

QUESTION 2 Why, or why not?

Extra Credit

Lets make a couple more assumptions, and then ask some more questions

QUESTION 3 Hypothetically, you answer that food supply problems is most important moral issue to you, and it is morally correct to be acting on at least some, but not all moral issues. Is the meat eating person who does not own an iPhone your moral peer?

QUESTION 4 If, hypothetically, you accept this person as your moral peer, what makes your proselytising acceptable?

QUESTION 5 If, hypothetically, you accept that proselytising is acceptable between individuals who both believe they are acting morally acceptably, can I give your phone number to an evangelical christian congregation?

Fork this gist to answer, or hit my up on twitter @johnbarton

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