In my view, if we imagine Reed as a gamer, we must imagine him as fully aware of his situation: that he is actually not ‘in the presence of someone who’s defenseless and cornered’. Obviously, Reed adequately perceives his surroundings, which is why he presses buttons on a controller...
The merits of these arguments notwithstanding, they still view the morality of eating animals almost exclusively through the lens of suffering and death inflicted on animals who are, up until that point, alive. They are not so much concerned with the treatment of dead animals' bodies itself. ...