10-01-2014, 02:27 PM
(10-01-2014, 12:39 PM)Monica Wrote:(10-01-2014, 02:16 AM)Unbound Wrote: So everyone who eats meat knowing suffering occurs has self-serving intentions, and you know this for sure? (Since you seem to blanket everyone with the same assumptions, even though you also stated you can't know the intentions and motivations of another.)
You are confusing blanketing people's intentions with an action being inherently STS.
What do you think? Do you think that knowingly, unnecessarily supporting cruelty is STS, STO, or neutral?
I thought it was clearly stated that the polarity of any particular action in itself can't be determined? Yet here you are insisting that this particular action is, in itself, always, ever, polarizing STS. I simply don't agree with this interpretation, so your next question is convoluted. It is purely your own interpretation that says it is "inherently" STS. (That just sounds ridiculous to me.)
I think this whole argument is convoluted because it is so entirely black and white in its approach.