• Dragon Rider (drag)@lemmy.nz
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    11 months ago

    Yes, treating anything the way humans treat animals is wrong. Isaac Bashevis Singer lived through the holocaust as a Jewish man, and learned firsthand what suffering is inflicted on the animals. He then wrote this quote.

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      11 months ago

      We are animals. Simplistic in many ways many animals eat meat, and that’s ok. We do it too. We should do it much less from an environmental standpoint. Meat is good to eat, however there is nothing wrong with not eating meat. Plants feel too, not like us for sure but they communicate damage to one another.

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            11 months ago

            No, drag’s implying people don’t have to do something just because it’s natural. Dying of dysentery is natural, but we try to avoid that. That’s why your argument that we should eat meat because it’s natural is silly

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              Eating isn’t natural? Dying or dysentery is natural, that’s why people still die of dysentery. My argument that animals eat meat isnt silly

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                11 months ago

                Drag believes you that animals eat meat, but that’s not a good reason for humans to eat meat. That would be an appeal to nature fallacy. Dingos eat babies, but humans shouldn’t.

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                  Humans are animals. It’s not an appeal to nature fallacy we are animals lol. Are humans somehow special are we better than the rest of nature? We’re superior or something?

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                    11 months ago

                    We have the potential to be. Our big brains let us make ethical choices. Vegans are better than animals, yeah. But you’re not. Because you don’t use your big brain to make ethical choices. Your choices are what define your goodness, and you don’t seem to believe you have a choice.