Let’s pretend that you have not eaten for 6 or 7 hours. At this point in the day, you will probably start to display some very primal behavior. All your brain wants to do is get you to the nearest source of food. It could be McDonald’s or just a slice of pizza. Have you ever had a busy day at work? One of those days that makes it very difficult to sit down and have a normal lunch meal? By the time you clock out and get back in your car, all you can think about is getting food. Take pride in the nobility of the cause and the difference you’re making. Be patient. Provide useful information succinctly. Hope the person will process it and change. He or she won’t believe anything other than, “I would eat the pig,” therefore answering it is an exercise in futility unless your goal is to simply feel good about your hypothetical compassion. In addition, your answer is immaterial to the questioner. If you answer the island and the pig question or allow someone to goad you, you allow the person with whom you’re speaking to shift the focus from decisions they’re making to decisions you’ll never have to make. This common defense mechanism is transparent and ineffective unless you entertain it. To frame the futility of the island and a pig question in its proper context, you may also ask: Why is there anything rather than nothing? Does anything really exist? Are you awake or are you dreaming? If everyone on the planet sneezed at the same time, would it cause an earthquake?īy posing philosophical enigmas, people distract attention from reality.
Nobody knows what they’ll do if faced with a doomsday scenario so it’s nonsensical to speculate. We only know what we do and if you’re eating animals, you’re doing something you shouldn’t do. Or, if you’re in the mood to exchange far-fetched scenarios, you may pose the following question as a reply:If you were in a crashing airplane, would you (1) scream, (2) break a window and jump, (3) help others in need, or (4) try to land the plane safely.
If you were not alone, living on a planet with 7 billion people, had access to unlimited fresh fruits, vegetables, nuts, beans, and other healthy foods, and knew animals suffer and die horrible deaths so you could eat them when you don’t need to eat them to survive, would you continue to eat them? The difference between our questions is that your scenario will never happen and mine is the choice you face right now. If you were alone on a deserted island with a pig, would you eat the pig or starve to death?
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