Lomed Mkol Adam-
1) Lev tov and ayin tov aren’t good by definition. They just make doing good a whole lot easier.
2) But in some cases it is a mitzva, which is why I cited those specific cases.
I do not believe any issue is a moral issue. You see, I will call your bluff. You can bring up the most unthinkable crime and I will still say it isn’t a moral issue. That is, it isn’t immoral based on the fact that our feelings tell us so. Something is immoral because God says so. Without that it is all relative. That is the point I was trying to make in the first place.
One should certainly be compassionate to animals. And shecht them in a way that causes them hardly any pain.