/ck/ - Food & Cooking

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>Nothing in the natural world behaves this way.

Using this descriptive sentence as a normative one would be a naturalistic fallacy (and btw orgininally the ONLY thing that makes the concept of "value-free science").

>Is this your personal belief, or do you believe this applies to everyone else regardless of what cultural context they are from?

I do believe that this law should be universal

>If so, why do you hold that position, is it a religious belief or just a personal feeling?

I try to base the axioms of my ethics on feelings but deduce individual actions/concepts of it logically from those axioms.
Thus my ethics are very similar to utilitarianism and infact I think everyone is somewhat of an "crude/intuitive utilitarianist". This means I favour an ethical system which is based on the thought that fulfilling our desires is a good thing, because it makes us happy, and we have to choose options that make everyone as happy as possible.

I do have the feeling that I want to be alive and from what I see of the actions and utterances of (most) other people and animals I deduce that they want to be alive aswell. And my craving of a certain food feels like a really small gain compared to something, especially something intelligent and aware, loosing their live over it.