Again you just ignored my other point that even if you are right again scientifically that’s a big if the broader idea to decrease deaths would still be to completely end animal agriculture.
Well, no, I didn’t ignore anything. I disagree about the stance being valid from the get go and felt the point defeated.
Let me try again: You can lessen suffering, but you can not eliminate it. Your existence causes suffering. All existence does. Everything alive is only alive because it feeds off other living things who have their own way of existing. A suffering being a style you choose to not recognize is not only not a valid defence, it makes you just as guilty as those you attack.
Disregarding your more purposely inflammatory statements against other users and trying to stick to the logic of the situation, your stance has been “Being vegetarian / vegan is eliminating suffering and therefore should be the end goal.” Is that not correct? I’m not arguing in bad faith like many here or making a shitty “bacon = good” joke. I want to make sure you’re not being misinterpreted when I tell you that your argument is flawed and factually incorrect.
If you want to be vegan because you enjoy it? Go for it. That is inarguable.
If you want to be vegan because you feel it’s healthier? Rock on. Go you. You may be right if you carefully monitor your diet. I would argue against it being better than vegetarian however.
If you want to be vegan because it’s easier on the environment? Yup. You could make a good case that it would be better for the planet, but only because we’re overpopulated. A smarter case to make would be for a reduction in humans. Being vegan is a very minor step of harm reduction compared to fewer people.
If you want to be vegan because you don’t like factory farms? That’s not a logical jump to make. There are plenty of smaller suppliers you can procure from that do not have those issues; the smarter jump is to just not use bad providers no matter what the product.
If you want to be vegan because it’s eliminating suffering? Nope. You’re just making substitutions for things you’re comfortable with. Bad logic. Bad argument. You’re also applying your own morals (because this is a moral standpoint) to other people, which is stupid no matter who is doing it. From anti-abortion activists to Muslim extremists, your morals apply to you and only you. Do not try to enforce them on the outside world.
If you want to be vegan because it eliminates death? That’s also a moral argument. In fact, in the short term and per unit of death, being vegan adds MORE deaths, they’re just not a style you choose to recognize. Not to mention that increasing the crop yields to make up for the caloric deficit created by meat vanishing would also potentially kill the planet at this stage of human occupation. Crops that are easy to grow, less destructive to the land so they can grow it again immediately after, low maintenance, and cast-offs from other production are where animal feed comes from. This stuff could not be fed to humans or are excess.
And the way you’re going about it isn’t helpful to your cause. A better outreach for you would be to use the Food subs and post legit great vegetarian food and entice people that way. Doing it this way will accomplish nothing of value unless you secretly work for a factory farm and want to piss people off so they eat more meat, in which case you are doing exactly what you should be in this thread.
Your are now arguing for malthusianism the human population isn’t a problem. I want to be vegan because animals are people with lives of their own, who have families, who want to live and who have no real difference to humans. The fact that you are justifying the mass slaughter of people with nonsense arguments of word salad makes you a monster who nobody should ever love. Advocating the way you suggest wouldn’t be fighting against the commodity status of animals all it would do is make some people consume minuscule less meat not stop the ongoing genocide. You are a monster.
W… what? Am I debating with an AI or something? Malthusianism was never invoke nor implied. The food supply is a finite resource. This isn’t a debate. We live in an entropic reality. Period. You do not get to rewrite universal constants.
The argument was not nonsense, you’ve just moved the goalposts instead of acknowledging it. There was no justifying mass slaughter of people because animals are not people by any but the loosest of definitions (eg. the one you seem to operate on). You moving the goalposts of what constitutes the word “people” for political reasons does not magically make it so. I am wholly opposed to the political adjustment of words no matter who does it and for what reason it’s done. It’s intellectually dishonest and allows the mover to re-frame any argument however they see fit.
What if I did what you did? Well, now plants are people and you’re psychotic. I’ve now re-recategorized animals to never be people. Okay, so now you’re calling for genocide. Congrats! You’ve proved why word adjustments for political reasons is a shit idea. Now let’s be grown-up about things, shall we?
As someone who has lived on a small farm for a good number of years and raised animals, you (and I) hold their lives in higher regard than they do. That is because you (maybe?) are a sentient being. Many animals have fewer sentience-indicating behaviours than trees do.
And tell my hamster how important family is. She ate six of her children on two separate occasions.
We make way more than enough food to feed everyone hell even everyone at the highest projected world population we will reach around 2050 its malthusian to advocate killing the poor to “control population of humans.” Animals are people they have subjective experience wishes wants. You can’t define people in a way to include humans and not other animals. Animals are sentient all science supports this that you deny it doesn’t change it neither does your anecdote. Your hamster probably ate its young because its stressed you are enslaving it. I hope your murdering ass chokes and dies in agony,
Again you just ignored my other point that even if you are right again scientifically that’s a big if the broader idea to decrease deaths would still be to completely end animal agriculture.
Well, no, I didn’t ignore anything. I disagree about the stance being valid from the get go and felt the point defeated.
Let me try again: You can lessen suffering, but you can not eliminate it. Your existence causes suffering. All existence does. Everything alive is only alive because it feeds off other living things who have their own way of existing. A suffering being a style you choose to not recognize is not only not a valid defence, it makes you just as guilty as those you attack.
Disregarding your more purposely inflammatory statements against other users and trying to stick to the logic of the situation, your stance has been “Being vegetarian / vegan is eliminating suffering and therefore should be the end goal.” Is that not correct? I’m not arguing in bad faith like many here or making a shitty “bacon = good” joke. I want to make sure you’re not being misinterpreted when I tell you that your argument is flawed and factually incorrect.
If you want to be vegan because you enjoy it? Go for it. That is inarguable.
If you want to be vegan because you feel it’s healthier? Rock on. Go you. You may be right if you carefully monitor your diet. I would argue against it being better than vegetarian however.
If you want to be vegan because it’s easier on the environment? Yup. You could make a good case that it would be better for the planet, but only because we’re overpopulated. A smarter case to make would be for a reduction in humans. Being vegan is a very minor step of harm reduction compared to fewer people.
If you want to be vegan because you don’t like factory farms? That’s not a logical jump to make. There are plenty of smaller suppliers you can procure from that do not have those issues; the smarter jump is to just not use bad providers no matter what the product.
If you want to be vegan because it’s eliminating suffering? Nope. You’re just making substitutions for things you’re comfortable with. Bad logic. Bad argument. You’re also applying your own morals (because this is a moral standpoint) to other people, which is stupid no matter who is doing it. From anti-abortion activists to Muslim extremists, your morals apply to you and only you. Do not try to enforce them on the outside world.
If you want to be vegan because it eliminates death? That’s also a moral argument. In fact, in the short term and per unit of death, being vegan adds MORE deaths, they’re just not a style you choose to recognize. Not to mention that increasing the crop yields to make up for the caloric deficit created by meat vanishing would also potentially kill the planet at this stage of human occupation. Crops that are easy to grow, less destructive to the land so they can grow it again immediately after, low maintenance, and cast-offs from other production are where animal feed comes from. This stuff could not be fed to humans or are excess.
And the way you’re going about it isn’t helpful to your cause. A better outreach for you would be to use the Food subs and post legit great vegetarian food and entice people that way. Doing it this way will accomplish nothing of value unless you secretly work for a factory farm and want to piss people off so they eat more meat, in which case you are doing exactly what you should be in this thread.
Your are now arguing for malthusianism the human population isn’t a problem. I want to be vegan because animals are people with lives of their own, who have families, who want to live and who have no real difference to humans. The fact that you are justifying the mass slaughter of people with nonsense arguments of word salad makes you a monster who nobody should ever love. Advocating the way you suggest wouldn’t be fighting against the commodity status of animals all it would do is make some people consume minuscule less meat not stop the ongoing genocide. You are a monster.
W… what? Am I debating with an AI or something? Malthusianism was never invoke nor implied. The food supply is a finite resource. This isn’t a debate. We live in an entropic reality. Period. You do not get to rewrite universal constants.
The argument was not nonsense, you’ve just moved the goalposts instead of acknowledging it. There was no justifying mass slaughter of people because animals are not people by any but the loosest of definitions (eg. the one you seem to operate on). You moving the goalposts of what constitutes the word “people” for political reasons does not magically make it so. I am wholly opposed to the political adjustment of words no matter who does it and for what reason it’s done. It’s intellectually dishonest and allows the mover to re-frame any argument however they see fit.
What if I did what you did? Well, now plants are people and you’re psychotic. I’ve now re-recategorized animals to never be people. Okay, so now you’re calling for genocide. Congrats! You’ve proved why word adjustments for political reasons is a shit idea. Now let’s be grown-up about things, shall we?
As someone who has lived on a small farm for a good number of years and raised animals, you (and I) hold their lives in higher regard than they do. That is because you (maybe?) are a sentient being. Many animals have fewer sentience-indicating behaviours than trees do.
And tell my hamster how important family is. She ate six of her children on two separate occasions.
We make way more than enough food to feed everyone hell even everyone at the highest projected world population we will reach around 2050 its malthusian to advocate killing the poor to “control population of humans.” Animals are people they have subjective experience wishes wants. You can’t define people in a way to include humans and not other animals. Animals are sentient all science supports this that you deny it doesn’t change it neither does your anecdote. Your hamster probably ate its young because its stressed you are enslaving it. I hope your murdering ass chokes and dies in agony,