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Did you know that when you cut grass it sends out distress signal - the lovely smell of fresh cut grass. In principle it is the grass screaming out loud in horr

Did you know that when you cut grass it sends out distress signal - the lovely smell of fresh cut grass. In principle it is the grass screaming out loud in horror. https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/30573/what-causes-fresh-cut-grass-smell https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/30573/what-causes-fresh-... Unfortunately we can't survive without hurting other species.

scoopertrooper 5y ago
Humans are also great at personifying non-person things. The grass isn't 'screaming out in horror', rather it's emitting a chemical that its evolved to emit in response to certain stimuli.
- 6510 5y ago
  Its one giant organism, we are awfully hung up on that its parts are not touching and imagined some fringe type of individualism like covering your eyes with your hands makes you invisible. We are nothing without context. We are slaughtering, maiming and torturing people (plants and animals) all of the time, non stop, since the beginning. We build ever more sophisticated machines to do it. I cant even look at the butcher robots that feed me. Chimeras might actually improve the situation. It would force us to question our holier than thou, my shit don't stink attitude. I for one welcome our chimera underlings. It will be a revolution of philosophy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_ape_language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_ape_language
  - yesenadam 5y ago
    > Chimeras might actually improve the situation Stopping supporting the animal-killing and animal-experimentation industries as far as you easily can, would improve the situation. i.e. Stop eating "meat". And imagine the oceans without humans fishing them lifeless.
yesenadam 5y ago
> we can't survive without hurting other species. I'm not sure about the purpose of your comment, but it sounds like your conclusion is "therefore can do whatever we want to other species." As if ethics doesn't apply. As if we shouldn't try to minimize that hurt. Maybe I'm wrong about that. Paragraph speculating about such arguments and why people use them: Hopefully one day soon people aren't still offering "plant=animal" justifications of eating animals, like this. I find them very depressing. It's as if suffering is a joke to these people. Or something, I don't understand. Just repeating pro-meat arguments they've heard, I guess. Maybe it's a positive sign, and such comments try to bury unease from their growing sense of ethical responsibility to other species.
- nojokes 5y ago
  I would like to interpret it as do least harm as reasonably possible. I would also like to see artificial meat to appear. Then the large number of current captive animals could be "retired".

scoopertrooper 5y ago

Humans are also great at personifying non-person things. The grass isn't 'screaming out in horror', rather it's emitting a chemical that its evolved to emit in response to certain stimuli.

6510 5y ago
Its one giant organism, we are awfully hung up on that its parts are not touching and imagined some fringe type of individualism like covering your eyes with your hands makes you invisible. We are nothing without context. We are slaughtering, maiming and torturing people (plants and animals) all of the time, non stop, since the beginning. We build ever more sophisticated machines to do it. I cant even look at the butcher robots that feed me. Chimeras might actually improve the situation. It would force us to question our holier than thou, my shit don't stink attitude. I for one welcome our chimera underlings. It will be a revolution of philosophy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_ape_language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_ape_language
- yesenadam 5y ago
  > Chimeras might actually improve the situation Stopping supporting the animal-killing and animal-experimentation industries as far as you easily can, would improve the situation. i.e. Stop eating "meat". And imagine the oceans without humans fishing them lifeless.

yesenadam 5y ago

> we can't survive without hurting other species. I'm not sure about the purpose of your comment, but it sounds like your conclusion is "therefore can do whatever we want to other species." As if ethics doesn't apply. As if we shouldn't try to minimize that hurt. Maybe I'm wrong about that. Paragraph speculating about such arguments and why people use them: Hopefully one day soon people aren't still offering "plant=animal" justifications of eating animals, like this. I find them very depressing. It's as if suffering is a joke to these people. Or something, I don't understand. Just repeating pro-meat arguments they've heard, I guess. Maybe it's a positive sign, and such comments try to bury unease from their growing sense of ethical responsibility to other species.

nojokes 5y ago
I would like to interpret it as do least harm as reasonably possible. I would also like to see artificial meat to appear. Then the large number of current captive animals could be "retired".