we don’t choose to be born, but pretending that we don’t have the choice to minimise the suffering we cause (whether we have a duty to is another question entirely) is just cynical nihilist sophistry

going for a walk is not the same as going for a walk and kicking everyone you see along the way in the shins, this is basically absolving yourself (and everyone) of any heinous things they do because, well, life sucks anyway, right? thousands of years of social contract and moral philosophy deboonked with this one weird trick

which… makes you feel justified in perpetuating suffering too? what? i sympathise for any trauma people might have inflicted on you in the past but i don’t know what this has to do with meat eating or plant sentience or any of the metaphysics of harm reduction or whatever else

have you considered going for a long walk in the savannah, you could test that pretty quick

yea fortunately there are plenty of other delicious things that don’t have a physiology that guarantees they have pretty much the same conscious experience as me

don’t you think that’s a funny thing to say when you’re building your entire metaphysical conception of the world around not having to change or question your lifestyle

people would literally rather turn into blitzed out new age panspiritualists than agree with a vegan that killing a cow isn’t equivalent to peeling a potato

the article they posted to back up plants “feeling pain” anthropomorphises bubbles popping in the fibres of damaged plants as “crying”, which is apparently proof for plant sentience

clearly, especially since it’s rhetorically convenient for you

an animal with a nervous system entirely analogous to ours and a plant that has crackly bubbles in its cells when it’s low on water or damaged? the same thing, actually. identical. there is no difference between things, and if you think there are then clearly you’re just a hypocritical vegan

scrape sheet of metal with scissors

loud noise and sparks

my god… it’s screaming… minerals feel pain…

but they gave us fruitpilled peachcel dad in his yummy snack arc

go back in

good (also they’re proposing a toggle that’s off by default)

ai slop with ai generated citation text…

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