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)

@tomie ethics is an explicitly human field, it cannot be applied to animals, objects, imaginary things, ect.
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@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

@tomie ethics are inherently social so if a human kicks a rock over and no other human is affected it has nothing to do with ethics
@tomie yes and a person who doesn't care about fake garbage is able to do things in good conscience like if running over to help a human in need involves stepping over ants then so be it
@tomie likewise having some sea bugs as pets for kids is of value to them so human prosperity has increased
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