What if i was born a Sheep ?

I was in Morocco for Eid, Chefchaouen to be exact. The sheep blood ran down the streets and the mountain so there were all these red rivers of blood on the bright blue and white streets.

 

You are overthinking it.

 

I like lamb burgers so if I was a sheep it would kinda suck
but hey more and more ppl are going vegan plus there are stem cells n shit so maybe life for sheep will improve in the future and that's pretty cool I think

 

I love lamb gyros

Don’t like eating shellfish like lobster. Specially since you need to boil them alive and they just kinda stare you as you eat them.

 

eat grass and kick people

 

That's not sanitary.

I think shellfish nervous systems aren't sophisticated enough to register that kind of pain. Maybe not though, I'm not a marine biologist.

You don't know much about sheep, do you?
Domesticated sheep can be farmed for meat or wool. They don't kick people, but a ram might head butt you if he feels threatened. Sheep are not smart, and they pee a lot. Domesticated sheep generally have a pretty good life, until the meat ones are slaughtered, and the wool ones don't seem to enjoy their annual haircut.

Wild sheep still range in the mountains of the western US. It is legal to hunt them, but it's extremely regulated. Only a few are permitted to be taken per year, and winning a tag does not guarantee you'll be able to get one, as they are extraordinarily difficult to hunt. They are nimble, quick, observant, and unlike their domestic cousins, clever. Hunting one typically requires camping gear, a good scope, marksmanship skills, and a lot of patience. Wild sheep generally have a pretty good life, until they get old and slow and are eaten by a puma, or die of disease.

The question is, is a sheep any more or less significant, and is their life more or less meaningful, than a humans'? We also generally have pretty good lives, until we die for whatever reason. Whether a sheep or a human, we eat, we pee, we mate and raise a family, then we die and are eventually forgotten. We vary in scale and complexity of the activities we enjoy, but we share space on the same rock, hurtling through space on the edge of a galaxy, on the edge of the cosmos. Is it better to graze in the field, to sleep in the sun and dwell with our herd around us, or to be aware of your mortality, and to struggle to find significance amidst the chaos of life?

Don't do porn everybody! It's bad for you, and that matters. Supposedly.

 

I'm sorry, this was made partially in jest. There's a number of ways you can interpret our position in relation to the sheep.

I don't know how Islam works, but Christians believe God made us special. It's our responsibility to look after the rest of creation, because God made humans, male and female, to reflect His own divine image. We have meaning because God, our creator, loves us and gives us meaning. Maybe eating sheep is an abuse of our responsibility, or maybe it is our privilege to do so.

Or, if you wanted a strictly naturalist interpretation, as so many of us do these days, you could take it one of two ways. Either we are truly no better than the sheep, and have no right to consume them or hold dominion over them, and have no more right to use resources than any other creature on the planet, so we should all be vegans and renounce our comforts and technologies that harm the environment... or nothing truly does matter, so we can eat as many sheep as we want.

No matter what, we usually use complex philosophy to justify doing whatever we want.

 

I know where you are coming from. Eid is a tough day for me, can’t even imagine what it is for the animals. After all these years of running away from home on Eid(s) I now try to reason my anxiety by saying to myself that everyone will taste death afterall