We hope we aren’t getting carried away!

Travelling on society’s meat train, most people do. Some, however, don’t accept the terms of carriage. We don’t trust the ‘carrier’. We choose not to travel on this train despite the fact there are virtually no other trains running. Society makes it difficult to jump off the train and it doesn’t allow us to change the route it takes, so we have to accept what we are given. Shape up or ship out. We have to accept the whole journey without question or abandon the whole thing altogether. If we leave, we then have to reappraise each of our society’s moral codes individually, according to our own instinct.
Ethics are like the rail network or rather the hills and valleys which determine the routes of the network. Each route may lead us towards the same end, but we’re given a few choices – perhaps to take the fast route, or a more scenic route, or a low energy-consuming route or a less exploiting route. Each route has its own logic, otherwise it wouldn’t have survived for so long as a way to get to where we want to go. And we’re given the impression that our own choice is based on exercising free will. But the moral code of our society is such a strong persuader of choice that we fail to make any judgments on the nasty stuff we see. We accept what we’re advised to accept for fear of losing our momentum, our travel rights, our society’s help. We smile as we go about our business, as we continue to eat the body parts of our beautiful brothers and sisters of the animal world. Society gives us what we want but demands obedience in return.