Debate about being vegan/vegetarian here

Didn’t you just say that they all have the right to live?

Anyways #2
How do you know that animals even want to be alive? What if they just want to reproduce, as is the goal of all living things?

The thing about that is that we’re omnivores, and we’re smarter than most other animals, so we can make choices about what we eat.

Anyways #2
How do you know that animals even want to be alive? What if they just want to reproduce, as is the goal of all living things?
- Because if they can’t think, they won’t mind being dead; they won’t know they’re dead, they don’t know.
- Animals can feel emotions and pain. Even if they didn’t want to live, they definitely wouldn’t want to suffer.
Consuming anything other than water, by your logic, would be wrong, then. Unless you believe that water is alive.