• Dark_Blade@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Funny how the people who call billionaires ‘evil’ for hoarding wealth and treat landlords as Literally Satan for owning more than one house can sometimes also ignore the fact that they literally kill and eat animals for no reason other than cows being tasty.

    This coming from someone who isn’t even vegan btw, I just think the reactions to your post were hilarious.

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      1 year ago

      The reactions to my post are indeed hilarious, although I also find it a bit exasperating. Especially if you take into account that normally I get downvoted to hell for mentioning animal suffering, so I thought I would pre-empt those downvoters and speak to them, but now they’ve found a new reason to downvote and hate the messenger instead of engage the message 🤷‍♂️

      Indeed people are super resistant to any vegan message. Yet at the same time, the facts are simply the brutal facts. It’s simply super bad for the planet and a nightmare of unimaginable scale for the animals. It’d be very nice if people would just stop, which is definitely possible in 2023, but it is indeed easier to point at the evil billionaires then change your own behavior.

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      1 year ago

      I think it is clear that most humans value the experiences and welfare for other humans more than those for individuals of others species.

      You may not be among those who share the same values, but most do, and I expect it to remain so.

      More broadly, non-human animals have different, if any, social behavior, compared to humans, and therefore are never participants in human society.

      As humans, we understand that we inevitably live in systems among other humans, dependent on human capacities and human tendencies, and we seek to direct such systems in support of objectives we identify as valuable.