• Maple Engineer@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    What if your behaviour towards other humans demonstrates a complete lack of any morality?

    Who are you to force everyone else to do what your say? That sounds like slavery. Who are you to discriminate against those who eat meat? That sounds like the discrimination suffered by LGBTQ folks.

    Who decided that you were morally superior and that anything you do is justified in the name of your moral purity?

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      2 months ago

      Its not really the eating meat part thats the bad bit, its that you have to murder an animal to get the meat. Notice there is no problem with lab meat or plant based meat.

      I would hope everyone would aspire to exceed the standard of “does not murder things”.

      And yes I would argue that someone’s morals that allows them to murder anything, is almost always worse than someone’s morals that does not allow murdering.

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        2 months ago

        Its not really the eating meat part thats the bad bit, its that you have to murder an animal to get the meat. Notice there is no problem with lab meat or plant based meat.

        The word you’re looking for is, “kill”. “Murder” is the killing of one human being by another. Using the word, “murder” ro refer to the killing of an animal is a bad faith attempt to use inappropriate inflammatory language to push your agenda.

        I would hope everyone would aspire to exceed the standard of “does not murder things”.

        Again, it’s not murder. It’s killing, but it’s not murder. If you want to be taken seriously use the correct word.

        And yes I would argue that someone’s morals that allows them to murder anything, is almost always worse than someone’s morals that does not allow murdering.

        You’re really fixated on murder but it’s the wrong word. It’s killing. You will plants when you eat them. You kill bacteria when you wash. Things die. It’s part of the cycle of life. Some things die and are consumed by other things.

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        2 months ago

        I see the vegan brigade has arrived to try to silence me with impotent Lemmy downvotes. Welcome, everyone!