That’s a nice way to put the question, yes.

Thinking about morality requires you to look like a gross idiot sometimes when you have to ask the questions that seem obviously wrong on the face of it. But that’s exactly what I’m asking, why does it seem so ridiculous to ask this question? Is it not obvious that fucking an animal is not as bad as treating it like shit for its lifetime and then brutally killing it? Is it not hypocritical to equate the two?

I understand that asking this question makes me look like a pig fucker but I’ll take the L if it gives us something interesting to talk and think about.

edit: If the act of fucking an animal hurts it then that is obviously immoral, but if they barely notice then it seems to me that the answer to the question of why that is wrong is internal to humans. I guess that’s what I’m asking; what is that thing we have internalised as wrong (which I have, as well, just for the record)? What is the moral reasoning behind that thing? Is it just that we’re weird about sex and we project those feelings onto the animal?

If people who eat meat are going to denounce bestiality as wrong (which again, I do as well, because of said internalised thing) I feel there should be some form of reasoning that is congruous with having no qualms about killing and eating animals.