are sea monkeys ethical?
on one hand, selling something living to literal 5 y/os is never going to end well, so the creatures are going to die horrible death in a plastic toy tank
on the other, the so-called sea monkeys are the literal bottom of food chain and mostly bred as live feed for fish anyway while a supervised 5 y/o might love them dearly and they seem to be fine with a plastic tank (unlike fish)
@mactonite I am not asking about the ethics of sea monkeys inter-non-society that they naturally do not have; I am asking about the ethics of human beings towards sea monkeys, because human ethics can be applied to everything that surrounds humans, sea monkeys included
of course ethics can be and is applied to animals, objects, imaginary things and general concepts: like, if I see a rando on the internet screeching about lolicon being literal pedophilia, I know that he has no ethics
@mactonite are you aware of the concept of conscience
@tomie
They are bottom feeders, so I see them aboutas ethical, as leaving a rotten banana in a plastic tank.
And also, I see them about equivalent value as a pet. If my kid wants to watch some microorganisms, so be it, and my heart won't hurt when I throw it away.