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> They're equally alive I guess if you only care about the most primitive, baseline definition of "alive". I would think we had evolved beyond believing killin
by shlant 7y ago
> They're equally alive
I guess if you only care about the most primitive, baseline definition of "alive". I would think we had evolved beyond believing killing is killing no matter the circumstance. Do we not wish to distinguish ourselves from primal, purely survival-driven animals?
- imgabe 7y agoIt seems short-sighted to deem yourself more important than celery. We're both a tiny blip, an eddy in the outflow of energy from a star where we momentarily reverse the flow of entropy in the universe. If you're not survival-driven, you will eventually be out-competed by something that is. If we don't survive, everything else is pointless.
- sridca 7y agoVegans do not necessarily _actually_ care. They only _feel_ that they care. And that's what is important to them; their feelings. Just like people fight over religion, vegans and non-vegans fight over righteous feelings. Nobody actually cares about animals lol.
- sridca 7y agoThe activity of caring can be either actuality-based or feeling-based. A lot of caring from the vegan community is feeling-based. What this means is that one _feels_ that one cares about living species while not _actually_ caring about them. Furthermore, when one strongly feels in this manner they tend to hold strong beliefs as well. Much like religion, this results in people fighting over their cherished feelings and beliefs. In the end, nobody seems to _actually_ care about the animals. Think about it.
- sridca 7y agoIt would all be hilarious were it not for the suffering people instigate in order to defend their beliefs.