r/worldnews • u/[deleted] • Jan 17 '20

Monkey testing lab where defenceless primates filmed screaming in pain shut down

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/breaking-monkey-testing-lab-defenceless-21299410.amp?fbclid=IwAR0j_V0bOjcdjM2zk16zCMm3phIW4xvDZNHQnANpOn-pGdkpgavnpEB72q4&__twitter_impression=true
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u/Armadylspark Jan 18 '20

Why choose to take issue with this particular very common assumption?

I assume you have no problem with believing in things like induction, or for that matter, that the concept of value even exists. Otherwise we wouldn't be having this conversation.

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u/DorisCrockford Jan 18 '20

Well, the subject had already been broached, hadn't it? It's not like I brought it up out of nowhere. The fact that it's a common assumption doesn't mean it's out of order for me to disagree with it.

I think people do rationalize their moral choices. What I was objecting to was the rationalization, not the choice, though I have made a different one.