Originally Posted by
MindGames
No, because the tiger does not have a choice. The tiger must eat what is available because it needs food to survive. Therefore that says nothing about the tiger's capacity for compassion. Anyway, what does it matter if a tiger is compassionate? Are you going to hold a grudge against it because its biology gives it a legitimate reason to kill, while you, on the other hand, cannot because you are able to reason that eating plants would reduce the suffering of other sentient organisms? Simply put, it's immoral to kill an animal, simply because you know you're unnecessarily causing it to suffer, and you forgo the easily accessible, benevolent alternative.