Alrighty. Hey, Alyssa. Hey Sam. Are you ready? I don't know. I'm dying. We're both dying. We're so sick today, so don't mind the sick voices. Yeah. So today, I thought it could be interesting to go through some like moral questions.

And what our opinions are on different like moral things. Okay. This was sparked by a tweet that I saw. But we'll get into that. I have a different question first. Okay.

Because this seems like a good launching kind of launching that. So my first question. How do you decide what is moral and what's not?

How do you decide what is moral and is not? Okay. So I think that like when it comes person to person, I think it's instinctual. I think that like you know what feels right and what doesn't kind of thing. And like what like jives with you basically. I think as a society, it's almost like the average of that.

Like we all kind of come to like understand and like agree certain things. And like that's just like what becomes like socially acceptable within like your society. I think the issue that we run into is that sometimes that conflicts because if it's not instinctual, that means it's coming from somewhere, which could be either like culture or religion. Different stuff like that. So that's where like I feel like people kind of end up going up against each other. Yeah. I feel like what is moral is like learned, I guess. What do you think?

I'm sure that it's instinctual to some people, but I think that you do have to learn because stuff that we thought was like fine. Even like 40 or 50 years ago. You know what I mean? So I do feel like. I think that it's instinct like certain things are instinctual for certain people. And then if they can get enough like backing or like whatever like what's that thing reassurance. Yeah. Yeah. Then it kind of becomes this thing. And then everybody can start like start to see like, oh yeah. That.

That was a little immoral, wasn't it? Yeah. I think it's hard to though because like it's almost as if like we because different places have completely different morals and beliefs, obviously, for a number of different reasons. But one thing that has just always kind of sat sort of weird with me is there's like this dog meat festival in. I want to say some China, but it might be in Korea. We'll look at about it. We'll fact check.

But there's this dog meat festival and every single year people do like this huge petition against this saying like it's horrible. And obviously like I love dogs. I wouldn't eat a dog. I don't think that's okay. I just there's something weird about it to me because I feel like how are we to say that that's not okay because we don't do that in our culture, but we're fine with any other animal. Just not specifically dogs. And there's a few things that go into the dog meat festival.

Just because I know there's going to be someone in the comments because it's not something that's been around forever over there. And it's something that sort of was as far as I understand created to kind of push failed dog meat, but anyways. Okay.

But what do you think about that about specifically the dog meat festival? No. I was like, I don't know anything about it. Just about like like where do those morals kind of end basically like across borders.

Oh, man, this is like my brain is just turning like a million miles a second. I think that yeah, I think you're exactly right with the fact that different cultures have different senses of what is moral and what like societal laws you abide by.

I think that for me at the end of the day, what I try to do is like, I don't know if it's because I watched so many doctor shows, but I try to do no harm. Basically, that's literally like what I try to follow.

So if I'm doing harm to somebody, whether that's physical or emotional, I don't know that I've really done anything physically harmful to anybody.

Like, I'll just ask some stories. Yeah. But you know what I mean? Like that's kind of what where my moral compass like lies.

But yeah, that is so interesting because I know that other cultures obviously feel like cows are sacred or pigs as well. Yet in Western culture. Yeah, it's not that way for a lot of people.

So I totally understand what you're saying in that regard and it is interesting. Yeah, it's hard because like I think that a lot of Western people like if you were to pose the same argument of being like, well, we eat cows, blah, blah.

They'd be like, yeah, that's like totally different. Like, you know, like I just feel like it's so we're so desensitized to it here because that is just what's like socially acceptable.

That it's unfathomable to eat a dog. Yeah, but it's just so it's so different. Like it's so different. Yeah, I wonder, okay.

So the reason I think that it's so unfathomable to eat a dog, which I agree I would never eat a dog.

It's just clear there. Yeah, but it's because it's domesticated. And so we as this is my plan. But like we as a society have become friends with this animal.

And that is how I feel that vegans who donate meat or animal by products or whatever feel about all animals.

And I like in my understanding and like in this head, that's how I feel is that they feel like all of the animals are their friends.

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