Your entire life is built on a 4-billion-year chain of death and suffering. You wouldn’t exist in a modern world with antibiotics and childcare and plumbing if not for the exploitation and suffering of countless people.
This is just a conflict you have to figure out. You can be a person with values and ethics and still exist as a product of suffering. If you just can’t make that work, be an advocate for better practices, alternatively go live like the person in your story and just revert to subsistence farming with the land you surely have and the vast amount of knowledge how to spend every waking moment turning dirt to food. Nobody will give you a medal or care about your suffering though.
Your entire life is built on a 4-billion-year chain of death and suffering. You wouldn’t exist in a modern world with antibiotics and childcare and plumbing if not for the exploitation and suffering of countless people.
This is just a conflict you have to figure out. You can be a person with values and ethics and still exist as a product of suffering. If you just can’t make that work, be an advocate for better practices, alternatively go live like the person in your story and just revert to subsistence farming with the land you surely have and the vast amount of knowledge how to spend every waking moment turning dirt to food. Nobody will give you a medal or care about your suffering though.