Most people would consider sacrificing their health for others to be too demanding an ethical framework.
(This comment is local to the quote, not about the post’s main arguments) Most people implicitly care about the action/inaction distinction. They think “sacrificing to help others” is good but in most cases non-obligatory. They think “proactively hurting others for own benefit” is bad, even if it’d be easier.
Killing someone for their body is a case of harming for own gain. The quote treats it as just not making a sacrifice.
I think it does feel to many that not-killing animals is proactive helping, and not-not-killing animals is inaction, because the default is to kill them (and it’s abstracted away so actually one is only paying someone else to kill them and it’s never presented to one as this, and so on). And that’s part of why animal-eating is commonly accepted (though the core reason is usually thinking animals are not all that morally relevant).
But in the end “proactively helping others others is nonobligatory” wouldn’t imply “not-killing animals is nonobligatory”.
(This comment is local to the quote, not about the post’s main arguments) Most people implicitly care about the action/inaction distinction. They think “sacrificing to help others” is good but in most cases non-obligatory. They think “proactively hurting others for own benefit” is bad, even if it’d be easier.
Killing someone for their body is a case of harming for own gain. The quote treats it as just not making a sacrifice.
I think it does feel to many that not-killing animals is proactive helping, and not-not-killing animals is inaction, because the default is to kill them (and it’s abstracted away so actually one is only paying someone else to kill them and it’s never presented to one as this, and so on). And that’s part of why animal-eating is commonly accepted (though the core reason is usually thinking animals are not all that morally relevant).
But in the end “proactively helping others others is nonobligatory” wouldn’t imply “not-killing animals is nonobligatory”.