The Vegetarian Wager
Everyone who has done an introductory philosophy class knows about Pascal's Wager. Here's my new twist, the Vegetarian Wager.1) Either utilitarianism is true, or it is false.
2) Either we can take part in a practice that causes harm to sentient beings, or we can choose not to.
3) If utilitarianism is true, and we don't eat meat, we have done the morally right thing by far for a little suffering of our own.
4) If utilitarianism is true, and we do eat meat, we have done the morally wrong thing by far for little benefit of our own.
5) If utilitarianism is false, and we don't eat meat, we have done something morally neutral at worst, and something morally good at best for a little suffering of our own.
6) If utilitarianism is false, and we do eat meat, we have done something morally neutral at best, and morally wrong at worst for little gain of our own.
Therefore, we should not eat meat.
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