Jump on the bandwagon

It's interesting to think about how all of us are freeloaders, even when we don't necessarily mean to be.  Someone offers to do the paper for the group project, the whole group agrees, and then every benefits from one person's A work.  Someone offers to pay for your coffee from behind you in line, you get a free coffee.  We have to understand even simple things can make us "freeloaders."  That raises the question, for me, of if being a freeloader is ranged from bad to good.  Sometimes we're offered a favor and benefit from someone else's efforts.  Sometimes we are simply taking another person's hard work or money for granted and feeling no remorse about our doing.  I think that this term can range, we can be a bad freeloaders or good, but we can never cease being these creatures.

What can change the culture?

Although we can talk about how it should be morally unacceptable to cause a nonhuman pain for our own benefit, for most of us, it won't change our meat eating habits.  It's a large part of our culture to consume meat and it's become a large part of our everyday lives. What could put us in the right direction of breaking  this habit? When pondering on the question, I believe it would be beneficial for citizens to be aware of the real facts.  If what happened in slaughterhouses or how these animals are fed and kept were shown to everyone all the time, the culture would change.  If information concerning nonhuman consumption was very accessible and was encouraged to be acknowledged, we wouldn't have an ignorant culture and the moral status of these nonhumans would be stronger.

Response to "Is it Possible for Nonhuman Animals to Evolve into More Human Like Creatures?"

I believe that the direction this post is heading is correct, humans give more moral status to other humans because we can relate more to each other rather then to nonhumans.  The question of whether or not we would give nonhumans more moral status if they used the same communication/language as us, is interesting.  I believe the question is correct, also.  If we could communicate with nonhumans we would become more attached and feel more of a connection with these animals.  Therefore, we would  give a higher moral status to these nonhumans.