(05-01-2012, 05:16 PM)Valtor Wrote: Do you believe you are contributing to slavery by using money? Probably not, because that is probably not your intent. In the same way you can eat meat without the intent to contribute to animal abuse.
I'm incredulous!
If someone uses my money to enslave someone, I am only indirectly contributing, at worst, and even then, only if I know about it.
But eating meat is totally different, because, hellllllloooooo the person is actually eating the animal!
That is directly contributing to the animal's death.
That is more akin to directly enslaving someone.
To eat an animal and then say "Oops, sorry, I didn't mean to get you killed" is absurd. It's impossible to have any other intent, being that an animal must be killed before it can be eaten.