• jerkface@lemmy.ca
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    4 months ago

    The experiences of animals are real and matter. Their suffering is identical in nature to your own. Your moral perspective demands that you deny or ignore these facts. If you can deny that an animal’s experience has any value, you can do the same to a human.

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        4 months ago

        Okay? So?

        Being cruel and violent to innocent creatures requires that you learn to suspend your empathy. Being cruel and violent to innocent creatures EVERY SINGLE DAY requires that you main your empathy, to actually injure yourself and impair your ability to be empathetic AT ALL.

        To respond to your apparent non sequitur, I value compassion and empathy. Don’t you?

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      4 months ago

      I can deny the importance of human experience (the heat death of the universe will erase all traces of our existence and impact) without wanting to kill humans right now.

      How did you conclude the experiences of animals matter?

      How do you know animals are having experiences?

      How do you know human experiences matter?

      I don’t claim to have any answers to the above but I’ve never heard a satisfactory answer to these questions other than ‘I just believe it is so’ and if it boils down to my belief versus your belief I have to conclude that neither one of us actually has any idea.

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        I dont know why you call it your moral system, when your system apparently is that the earth is supreme, humans dont matter, therefore anything that happens is okay. Morals are a societal thing, if you dont care about society then what’s the point?

        How do you apply this system to your own actions? Just anything goes cause it doesnt matter?

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          I agree, morals are a societal thing and right now it’s perfectly socially acceptable to eat meat.

          How I apply this to my own actions is by conforming to the made up rules of society because that seems to keep me alive.

          If I lived in a vegan society and it was not socially acceptable to eat meat I likely wouldn’t.

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        4 months ago

        This is a bad faith argument, similar to saying “so you’ve never left a light on all day?” To someone protesting climate change.

        The point of veganism (besides the environmental side) is that there is far too much unnecessary suffering caused to animals; complex and intelligent animals, because of the meat industry. Of course humans will probably always cause death and suffering to animals and even other humans, but accepting this and taking it as a reason for “why should I care at all then” is ridiculous.

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          I don’t think we are at the point where all of humanity can refrain from meat. Maybe most Americans but we should maybe collectively decide this is the goal before pursuing it.

          Being incendiary is a strategy that only had small short term gains. Looking at th big picture more people need to understand the argument and it can’t be, “you should feel bad.” At least not until you’ve established the expectations and clear reasons why they exist outside of one’s own personal judgement.

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            4 months ago

            Why can’t we?? Meat is a luxury product!! The only reason you can afford it at all is because I subsidize it so heavily with my taxes. It is made by refining cheap, safe, plentiful plant food using the bodies of animals to create a toxic, addictive, scarce luxury good. In that process, MOST OF THE NUTRIENTS ARE LOST. If we all stopped eating meat, we would have such an overabundance of food, we would have to stop farming more than half the land we are currently farming for plants.

            Now tell me why YOU can’t stop being cruel and violent against the kindest, gentlest creatures on the planet? Because even if you can come up with a tortured hypothetical reason some unlikely hypothetical person can’t, if you can, then what you are doing is atrocity.

            • BluJay320@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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              Not that I was going to listen to you anyway, but the entire way you’re going about this just makes you look like a dick.

              Also, accusing me of being cruel and violent for buying a slab of meat off the shelf is laughably stupid.