I worked as a cashier at a grocery store for several years, I generally refuse to self checkout. It seems it as a shifting of responsibility from the store to the shopper to ensure that everything is calculated correctly.

They used to pay and train people to do this, now they’ve decided that their shoppers can do it and if something goes wrong then they get to decide that you were stealing.

https://nypost.com/2024/09/24/us-news/olympian-former-valparaiso-university-softball-coach-meaggan-pettipiece/

This is something that a doctor would go over with any patient before any surgery as a part of informed consent.

A patient will be informed of outcomes, possible complications and the likelihood of those complications.

Morals are internal and are often informed by one’s culture, upbringing, and lived experience. There is a wide array of answers here and that’s not surprising.

For me I do consider vegetarianism to be a more moral option, I am not a vegetarian though. I think that Americans eat more meat than they need to and men in particular are targeted to over consume meat to the detriment of their health. With these things in mind I do try to eat less meat and go through phases when I am more successful.

After taking a college course about the meat industry, my partner decided not to purchase meat, but still does eat it.

I agree, but also parents need better tools to be able to effectively limit their child’s access. App and device level parental controls are not sufficient as they currently work.