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One of the saddest truths about aggresive vegans is that, no matter what they say or write, normal folk won't care. Yes, we skin 'em, we fry 'em, we eat 'em. Exactly. No matter how you dress that, that's normal. And you trying to dress it as disgusting is only making it sound more epic.
I don't think so. In fact, I think most people are very well aware that vegans are essentially right. Inflicting suffering for personal enjoyment is something most people would reject. That's why indifference towards veganism and vegans isn't enough. You have to deflect the negative emotions that this would normally trigger in most people. In this respect, it's only slightly different from MAGAs mocking deported people with Studio Ghibli memes. You turn cruelty into something funny or quirky so that it becomes bearable. This relieves the burden on those who want to cling to it.
Doesn't make it morally pure in any manner whatsoever
Really just depends on which morals you use.
People are so fucking touchy about their perceived right to eat meat without ever considering the objective realities concerning it
Which objective realities are that?
That mass scale factory farming is horrifically cruel. Indicative of what I'm saying that I would even need to type this.
I mean, sure. I wouldn't call it an objective reality since you can't really measure cruelness, but I guess we can agree. But it is something I have considered.
Do you think this way of dressing it makes you sound epic?
If I thought that fish had deep meaningful personal lives in Europe and thousands of years of culture, families that love and care about them, harvesting them might cause me a moments pause, but you're making a strawman argument. Comparing fishing to deathcamps is fucking insane.
That quote is by Isaac Bashevis Singer, a Polish Jew who fled to the USA to escape the Nazis. And he didn't think it was insane.
I do
Well that's because you're drawing a false equivalence between the factory farming he criticised and a guy fishing in a lake on the weekends.
I also think comparing factory farming to the Holocaust is absurd. The Holocaust was not a vital food source for large portions of the world. I don't like factory farming, but you and a Holocaust survivor don't have the merit to make that equivalence in my opinion.
And please miss me with "the world doesn't need factory farming if we all go vegan" bullshit, I eat meat and you'll never convince me, or likely anyone not to by making such absurd arguments. It's why nobody takes vegans seriously.
Also, how do you know a vegan marathon runner trains CrossFit?
They've told you.
That's technically correct. The Nazis did use concentration camps for slave labour to help their war economy, but slave labour was only a vital food source in other points in history. Drag thinks the Nazis deserved to lose the war, and adults who relied on slaves for food like the colonial Americans deserved to starve. And drag doesn't draw a distinction between human slavery and animal slavery when drag says that. Drag wants to prevent suffering, and doesn't care if it's humans or animals who are suffering. Killing innocents to feed a predator only results in the predator getting hungry again in a few days or weeks. This is an easy trolley problem.
Drag needs a hobby
Unfortunately I think this is drag's hobby.
(one of) the problem(s) with Nazis and the Holocaust is precisely that it treated people like animals. that's what makes it wrong.
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.
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.
I doubt it.
Lynchings were normal, should we bring them back too? Normality doesn't equal what's right.
only for people that insist on cheapening human suffering by comparing people to livestock.
nobody said that. also, "livestock" lmao
At least animals don't create fascist dictators who threaten nuclear war every time they feel insecure about their small penises.
Not really sure why it's taken for granted that animals are such low forms of life that being compared to them in any manner is a horrifying insult (it isn't). And no, I'm not vegan I'm just not so brainwashed I cannot imagine empathy for animals.
I'm talking about a specific manner
no one said that
Implying that comparing humans to "livestock", a word whose purpose itself is to demean, is "cheapening" human life then yes that was absolutely said
the purpose of the term livestock is to differentiate between things farmers raise.
If you prefer a more aggressive approach, I could fry you.
If you give me a quick death by a bolt through the brain, you can do whatever you want with what's left.
I'll agree that factory farming is abhorrent though. Maybe try something about being locked into a small box not even large enough to turn around in, stuck next to your own filth, etc etc.
Yeah, sounds horrible. 😔
I bet I would be tasty