People say they are contributive citizens of society.
But all they do is eat meat. They don’t actually “contribute” anything.
They just rob it from other organisms, then tear down the planet to convert it into temporary energies.
It’s a simple exploit. Its like cheating the system.
It would be me like, going around to random cities and selling human legs on a kebob. It’s not really contributing to anything, just moving wealth around from one place to another, a simple exploit. Nothing is actually being produced, and overall it’s just making society and resources decline, like fossil fuels.
No my point was, what is called contributing to society is not actually doing anything productive overall, just transporting wealth from one group to another - robbing wealth from animals, and giving it to humans, because animals have less power than humans, and humans have more power than animals, and thus more likely special perks (such as toys, cars, sex. eg are to be gained from transporting the goods to humans than animals.)
It’s like why they cut down the rainforest, because the rainforest will not give them toys, cars, and sex, but by giving the wood to other humans, they will gain more goods such as toys, cars and sex. But they aren’t really contributing to society or anything just transporting wealth from one area to another.
There is just this one thing: What about vegetarians? Can vegetarians be productive members of society?
Being productive is not only about selling meat or wood to other humans. In the case of wood for example one should ask why some humans would give, as you say, toys, cars and sex to other humans in exchange for wood the got from the rain forest. I believe that the reason is that production can also add value to raw materials such as wood, so that from trees and earth you build things, even beautiful things that exceed by their beauty the value of the raw materials used. When sculptors chisel marble they are not just stealing from the marble but adding to it the vision in their minds and create something that would not exist without man. Therefore is not always about stealing and destroying but also about creating.