If a topic keeps coming up no matter how much you try to censor it, consider that it’s not going away. Some changes are long overdue.

  • db2@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Animals all over there earth eat each other constantly, often while the meal is still alive. Grow up.

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      5 months ago

      Animals do it for survival. Humans do it for fun. By your logic, should we legalize murder because animals of the same species kill each other without consequences?

      This fckn argument shows how brainwashed we as a society are. You didnt even think for 0.01s before posting this, but you did anyway because it is branded into your brain.

    • krimsonbun@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      5 months ago

      The problem is the scale at which we do it. I don’t have a problem with small and ethical farms killing some animals to sell or use themselves, but I don’t remember lions breeding their prey into slavery, injecting them with chemicals, and turning them into bigmacs millions of times over.

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        5 months ago

        Also corporate industrial waste that throws away hundreds of pounds like it’s nothing. But that’s a different argument from eating meat.

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        5 months ago

        Saying that scale is the problem is the epitome of collectivism. The individualist approach sees the moral landscape as the experience of the individual.

        In collectivist terms, which cannot help expressing these things in terms of numbers, the individualist view can be expressed as “one is too many”.

        But in individualist terms, it’s not about numbers at all. It’s about pain, pleasure, hope, fear, sadness, anger, etc.

        This concept of “well anything over fifteen thousand is too many”, drawing a line between numbers and calling that line the divider between good and bad, is a sure path to evil.

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      5 months ago

      This viewpoint is valid as long as you agree you aren’t morally or intellectually superior to a fish.

      Well, actually, many fish are obligate carnivores, so they don’t have a choice, so maybe more like a rat or a bear.