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Let's say, that in a 100 years, we'll introduce the same fundamental rights to animals as we already have for humans. Killing animals and eating them would beco

Let's say, that in a 100 years, we'll introduce the same fundamental rights to animals as we already have for humans. Killing animals and eating them would become a barbaric thing of the past. Would you find it fair if people of the future spat on your grave, and refer to you with the utmost contempt, because you were a meat eater? "He was a horrible, disgusting meat-eater! He deserved to die!"

mcgarnagle 8y ago
Yes, that would be the logical thing to find fair once you forgo your current ego. Disclosure, I eat meat, and if people should critique me in the future, so be it. Half the people in this thread are ripping on Lenin because of the things he did, even though at the time they were mostly "lawful" since he wrote the law. We absolutely should disgrace the horrible things people did in the past, so that to not do them over again.
- tzahola 8y ago
  "like many of his contemporaries, he held racist beliefs" vs "he was a disgusting racist antisemite! those bolsheviks sent him where he belongs! shooting and stabbing the whole family to death, hell yeah xDDDDD"
JadeNB 8y ago
> He was a horrible, disgusting meat-eater! Possibly, if that's the consensus of current mores, but I didn't say that; I said that a racist and an anti-Semite is a horrible leader. > He deserved to die! No, I definitely didn't say that. In fact, lostlogin explicitly disclaimed this position (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17556982 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17556982): > This doesn’t justify what happened to him, but certainly helps explain it. (emphasis mine). There are plenty of horrible people out there, but, most (and possibly all) of the time, wishing death on them is equally horrible.