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When somebody asks why you're a vegan (lemmy.sdf.org)

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[+] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (12 children)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So much of that is misplaced anthropomorphism though. Throughout history hundreds of millions of people have wrung the neck of a chicken or dropped a lobster into boiling water. Almost none of them have cried.

TV melodrama is a weird way to decide which actions have moral weight. We're particularly sensitive to the deaths of mammals because we see human qualities in their suffering.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So much of that is misplaced anthropomorphism though.

And i actually have a running hypothesis in my head that the whole term "anthropomorphism" is a false concept based on human's endless capacity for hubris and arrogance, like "manifest destiny". In my view 'anthropomorphism' as a term defining human traits in animals requires one to first have faith that traits such as "thinking" and "feeling" are limited to humans.

If you believe in evolution how realistic would it even be that we are alone in being able to reason? We're full of ourselves the moment we forget we're simply monkeys with the most powerful combination to come out of evolution so far: written language so that we might retain the lessons of generations past, and hands to build tools.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Man the comment section here is so fucking wild.

More than i would have expected honestly.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

A few seem to be breaking the rules for this specific community too, there was one even going into detail describing a processing facility, and when reprimanded by another user they said they didn't care.

I was hoping to learn something interesting, but maybe another time in a less popular thread

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I don't see those comments while logged in because they're from instances that went crazy with the defederation. Lots of redditors who will post ”I like eating meat tho” on a vegan comm from that shithole lemmy.world shocked-pikachu

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

im-vegan

CW: animal abuse https://youtu.be/LQRAfJyEsko?si=VKGH3wxpf8XegA-J

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (17 children)

If this sign were true I’d be a vegan 10 times over.

I’ve watched all vegan propaganda I’ve ever had sent to me:

Dominion. Earthling. Land of hope and Glory. The greatest speech ever (Gary Yourofsky) Cowspiracy Seaspiracy Don’t watch

Send me more I’ll view it.

This type of propaganda, in my experience, works on impulsive highly emotional people who willingly anthropomorphise animals.

A major diet change like becoming vegan shouldn’t happen because you saw one video. That’s a health disaster waiting to happen.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I saw Dominion exactly once, and I can't put anything in front of me that contains animal murder. Everyone else is cowards.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Everyone else is cowards.

Or worse: they just don't care. There are people like that. Zero empathy.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Locking this thread as it lost any usefulness and it's getting popular among edgelord kids

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