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Another problem. The argument as framed actually stacks the deck, in contrasting watching "child" pornography versus eating any and all meat. The better analogy is all pornography versus all meat-eating. That's at least a more helpful analogy because it only because it serves to isolate on...

I'd like to focus on just two problems. One, there's an obvious difference between eating meat and watching child pornography. Meat, like lots of food, has objectively measurable nutritional value. By eating meat, I'm doing something to sustain myself. Many dieticians would say that meat provides im...