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I agree with you on all counts. I have no problem with a person hunting for meat and consuming it.

That said, most humans will not hunt, just as they will not grow fruits and vegetables to consume. But by outsourcing the hunting (which essentially has led to the industrial farming of meat), everyone who eats such meat is complicit in the cruelty meted out to animals.

Bears eating elk seems okay to me, partly because it seems like they are born that way and they haven't evolved beyond their basic instinct to eat and survive. It seems that as human beings, we have a higher order skill named empathy. We feel pain and suffering and are able to relate to the pain and suffering of others - even if they are animals.

Once this evolution has happened, is it still right to continue inflicting pain and suffering for ones own benefit?

Yes, but if say tigers (or any other species) started "farming" humans and slaughtering them well before the end of their natural life span, would you still be ok with it?

I was born into a vegetarian family. I still am a vegetarian, but I accept that one species eats another in this world and that is how nature has evolved.

What has stopped me from ever eating meat was this: if we encountered an alien race which slaughtered and consumed humans the way humans consume other animals, how would I feel? The answer was always that I would feel disgusted/horrified/angry.

Shouldn't we all feel the same about another sentient species? We could argue forever about what 'sentience' means, but beyond a certain point it just feels callous to not stop.

I see your point, but there is nothing in the above which protects against "nefarious admins". My business account was previously on GSuite where the act of transferring data from a deleted user was to simply check a box and specify a destination email address.

Yes, but the same action of "transfering data" of an employee who has left the business was achievable with a couple of clicks previously. It was built into the deletion of a user. It was an option to say "Transfer this data to another account".

I'm not sure what this archiving feature is. The Support agent didn't suggest such an option. Will try, thanks.