Out of curiosity, do you believe that squid or in fact any living creature intelligent enough to capture prey, is not sentient?
There’s no way to sugar-coat this but one of the most vile, anger-inducing acts I see accepted in society is the practice of boiling lobsters alive.
It’s just as well I’m not posh enough to eat in such restaurants, cause honestly, if a chef ever offered to boil-alive a lobster for me, they had better be as efficient at running for their lives as they are at their sociopathic practices.
In my opinion, chefs willing to boil-alive living creatures do not not qualify as human beings. They’re sociopaths in my opinion and it’s an opinion I won’t be changing. So best of luck to Cthulhu, but please also spare a thought for the poor lobsters being boiled alive, because those lobsters are also sentient, they must be in order to catch prey!
Big thumbs-up to Microtribe for starting this thread by the way
So, less intelligent than broccoli but more than a child?
My bad, the children are driving me bonkers today.
I suppose it is a bit hypocritical since I am a meat eater but I have been refraining from octopi on my plate.
And it didn’t start off for a noble purpose. I really never understood why people like to eat octopus. To me, it is more or less flavorless and the texture isn’t something that makes up for it.
It’s kind of a “just before you can, doesn’t mean you should” thing.
But as I learned more about them critters, I have gone from: eh, it’s there on the plate, so I’ll eat it to just not.
Like I said, having eaten a cheeseburger for dinner last night, it’s inconsistent but we all have lines to draw.
With regards to lobster: not that I eat the stuff all that often but I have taken to putting it in the freezer, then pithing it or quickly killing it before putting it in the steamer.
The way I personally arrive at whether something is sentient or not is based purely on whether it has a brain or not. If it has a brain then it is sentient as far as I’m concerned.
