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General Discussion / Re: Vegetarianism Within PS, Pros and Cons
« on: October 07, 2007, 06:01:30 pm »
There seems to be some folks out there who think that there were no vegetarians in Earth's medieval period. I observed the expression of opinions that such primitive cultures were not thinking about the ethics involved in making the decision to not eat flesh. I wanted to show that not only was vegetarianism an established cultural norm during the medieval period, but well before that also.
It would not be out of setting to RP an vegetarian in the medieval-normed world of PS. There seemed to be some conflict regarding that statement and I wanted to cite evidence in support.
This was not the case before the series of barbarian pastoralist invasions in BC times, especially in South East Asia. Remnants of that Golden Age survived into the medieval period, just not so much in Western Europe.
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It would not be out of setting to RP an vegetarian in the medieval-normed world of PS. There seemed to be some conflict regarding that statement and I wanted to cite evidence in support.
It says its medieval but look at its society. They have a complex political structure and scientists that seem to go way beyond that. Ylikum is a much more civalised society than medieval earth.This ignores the pockets of "civilized" cultures that were even more civil that most of the 21st century Western world.
The settings dept has placed PS in a medieval period, on Earth during that period, you were lucky if you ate at all let alone have a choice in what to eat.
This was not the case before the series of barbarian pastoralist invasions in BC times, especially in South East Asia. Remnants of that Golden Age survived into the medieval period, just not so much in Western Europe.
If you think about it, in medieval timeframes they didn't really worry about it. Food is food, if it keeps you alive, you eat it. As an off note, people would need the fats from the meats for their energy
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I am no vegetarian, not to mention no vegan. So I may be wrong, but arent those people blaming the exploiting industry to torture animals, thus denying consume?
If so, hows about that in PS? I never read or heard about it.
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In the stone age people were most likely incapable of the intellectual art of moral philosophy I'd say.
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I just wonder if people in some imaginary original state, slightly comparable with the stone age or so, would have felt mercy as well?Neolithic = first non-nomadic, agrarian societies = likely first vegetarians