[Flamingoat]

Sorry but we weren't talking about Animal Welfare arguments. It was clearly in the scope of how people treat each other. Philosophical discussions similar to Janist/Vegan style argument are like well outside of the scope that being discussed.

As for hunting. I don't see anything wrong with hunting. I don't see anything wrong with eating meat.

As someone that has lived the vast majority of their life in the countryside, I also have little time for animal welfare arguments of the sort you are making.

> But given our history I'm also pretty terrified of what happens if and when we run into a smarter and more powerful alien species or AI. If history is any guide, it won't go well for us.

This is all sci-fiction nonsense. If we had any sort of aliens contact they wouldn't be many of them, or it would most likely be a probe like we send out probes to other planets. As for the super intelligence, the AI has an off switch.