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Personally, I just think the moral middle ground would be to be the person that slaughters and butchers the animals you eat. It would allow the most respect for all parties imo.
The moral middle ground is to not kill animals (or pay someone to) if you don't need to.
I don't know. That feels a bit off-center to me rather than middle considering one end of the spectrum is "kill nothing ever" and the other end is "How many endangered animals can I make extinct just for funsies." If everyone killed what they ate themselves, manually, I bet we'd have a bunch more vegetarians hanging around.
Surely one side would be "kill nothing" and the other would be "kill animals"?
Right but how else will they move the goal post to get a conversational W