• Treble@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      23 hours ago

      An individual abstaining from owning slaves didn’t reduce slave populations either. Think they were as dumb and ineffectual as I am? Fine.

      • NSRXN@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        22 hours ago

        so you are moving the goalposts from efficacy to ethics. that’s fine, but I don’t believe eating fish is unethical.

          • NSRXN@lemmy.dbzer0.com
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            1
            ·
            21 hours ago

            I don’t think eating fish is cruel, nor inherently harmful to the planet. the methods of fishing that have developed, and the scale of modern fishing are problems, but for me to choose to abstain from fish would not mitigate the situation.