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So if I think that it's bad that a sentient individual is killed for my taste plesure, I should also think it's bad if a non-sentient plant is seasoned to mimic meat and pressed into its form? How does that make sense?
Consider my cannibalism example (which is not actually cannibalism) or the example of whether AI child porn would be acceptable (I think most would find that it is not).
It's not cannibalism, if it's not human flesh so I don't see why that would be bad but even the idea that eating meat from the same species is worse than eating from another is weird to me (on a moral level). Just seems like more human supremacism.
Yes but I like the cannibalism example because it usually does a good job bringing forward the intuition I’m getting at with the hot take.
Another one is robot child sex worker—not hurting anyone directly (unless you believe in robot rights) but I think most people would deem it a problem. Looks like a duck sounds like a duck sort of thing.
But fake meats don't hurt anyone at all, not even indirectly. With your other examples one could argue that it's desensitizing to the real thing. But eating seitan instead of meat is a conscious decision that probably even reinforces how unethical it was to begin with to kill an animal for this.