@hakima saidIf you didn't want to lick an ice cream and only found yourself having to do so because you'd bought one for yourself and then if you were to complain about having to lick the ice cream, then that would - in a sense - mean you'd succumbed to a self-licking ice cream - certainly metaphorically, but also, arguably, ice-creamly too.
I prefer to lick my own ice creams. Of course, that would make them self-licking, wouldn’t it?.
I have always thought that ice creams should be left in their natural environment, rather than be exploited for their decadent use by another species. Habitat destruction is obviously a problem, but several projects to return ice creams to the wild have met with some success. Icecreamus vanilarus has been particularly successful in this regard, although Rippleus Raspberrium less so.
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@indonesia-phil saidI find your sentimentality about habitats and exploitation tangential. As with animals, I don't see ice creams as having rights per se. I can only see legitimate, enforceable rights in terms of humans allowing or restricting their own rights viz a viz their interactions with ice creams. Only when ice creams can honour those responsibilities that correspond to any rights they lay claim to - and as soon as they are able to advocate and converse with humans about such matters and about the notion of rights more generally - only then will I consider ice creams to have rights. Until then there are only the rights to make, freeze, transport, display, sell, lick or eat them as we humans see fit.
I have always thought that ice creams should be left in their natural environment, rather than be exploited for their decadent use by another species. Habitat destruction is obviously a problem, but several projects to return ice creams to the wild have met with some success. Icecreamus vanilarus has been particularly successful in this regard, although Rippleus Raspberrium less so.
@fmf saidFossil records indicate that during the last ice age, various flavours of ice cream flourished as far south/north as + or - 40 degrees of latitude. Nowadays most flavours are restricted to polar regions or regions of high altitude, (minimum of 10 degrees below melting point). If we ignore the rights of such ancient luxury foods, I believe we do so at our peril.
I find your sentimentality about habitats and exploitation tangential. As with animals, I don't see ice creams as having rights per se. I can only see legitimate, enforceable rights in terms of humans allowing or restricting their own rights viz a viz their interactions with ice creams. Only when ice creams can honour those responsibilities that correspond to any rights they lay ...[text shortened]... re only the rights to make, freeze, transport, display, sell, lick or eat them as we humans see fit.
