[tbitrust]

Imagine human beings farmed for food by an alien civilisation that has "debates" on whether it's ethical or not to eat homo-sapiens.

They have centuries and centuries to settle the question while rearing and killing billions of human beings each year.

N.B. The price of baby meat is higher because it's more tender or whatever.

[c22]

Imagine an ecosystem where living things don't eat eachother and live in full cooperation and harmony. No chance to ingest the biological building blocks created by other organisms. No evolutionary pressure to develop defenses or hunting strategies, etc...

Now ask yourself if the level of sentience that develops in this environment is satisfactory. Is there even a chance of developing thinking matter that can have a debate about ethics?

[datameta]

I recently read a sci-fi short story that describes an alien forest that has no predation, only vicious instant scavenging the moment something dies. The colonists wear light-suits to prevent brutal death because only the dead indigenous lifeforms create no light.

[pvaldes]

"Mum nature is so wise that made babies leak shit, and smell like shit, as a clear warning that we aren't supposed to eat them". (pvaldes 2024)

Fortunately we could teach this aliens about the delicacy of octopus farming.