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Most cattle are relatively happy, have their medicine, their wild versions, conditioning of their young and forced sex (orgy-porgies without the orgy. . . ).

Do the social structure and outlook of cattle appeal to you?

Edit: because that's what the dystopia presented in A Brave New World is similar to.




Visceral reaction is not an argument. If you ask me to imagine undergoing surgery I'll think "eew". But I still think a world in which people can undergo surgery is better than one in which it doesn't exist.


Is your argument that a world in which people have no decision making power about their future is a good world to live in?


No, my argument is that your argument is bad.




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