• Gloomy
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      2 years ago

      Virtually nobody who eats meat feels guilty about it

      I felt guilty about it and became a vegetarian and, once I leaned about how milk and eggs lead to death and suffering, a vegan. I have been so for 10 years plus now.

      Animals are there to be food.

      Yes, but only in the same sense that woman are there for the plesure and serving of men. It’s a social construction and is, as it thankfully has with the perception of woman, changing.

      If there was a life form that could eat me it would, and I’d have to accept that.

      I don’t think so. I think you’d ramble in about how unethical it is to eat a sentient beeing and how cruel this hypothetical lifeform is. Because that’s how we are build. It’s easiest for us to feel empathie towards our own sorry asses.

      You can learn to expand your empathie tough. Start here. Watch it completely. No skipping. Then we can talk:

      https://youtu.be/LQRAfJyEsko?si=MT8NgPIU0bpIpg3i

    • @ghostdoggtv@lemmy.world
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      72 years ago

      virtually nobody

      The ones who felt guilty about it in this context have stopped doing it. You must have felt so smart though!

    • @jarfil@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      If there was a life form that could eat me it would, and I’d have to accept that.

      Ever heard of cannibalism?.. or E. Coli, just get a bit in your blood and it will eat you in no time (aka: sepsis).

      • tygerprints
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        12 years ago

        Actually every human has some E. Coli in their gut - it’s one of the many flora that inhabit our digestive tracts. And what’s so bad about cannibalism? Those people in the Andes only survived because they ate their dead teammates, and some of them even said they’d do it again because it’s the only thing that prevented them from starvation.

    • DroneRights [it/its]
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      12 years ago

      If there was a life form that could eat me it would

      Yeah, it’s called COVID-19. It wants to use your cell nuclei to grow its children from your body’s energy stores, and it doesn’t mind if it shuts down your respiratory system until you can’t breathe. And there are a hundred deadly diseases like it.

      Every time you wash your hands, blow your nose with a tissue, or cover your mouth to cough, you are showing you value life above the supposed right of predators to eat you. And that’s okay. Everything has a right to live and that’s okay.