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Go tell the lions they're not exceptional. I'm sure they'll switch to tofu. The argument isn't convincing. It relies on a tired rethorical trick: invent some s
by tgv 4y ago
Go tell the lions they're not exceptional. I'm sure they'll switch to tofu.
The argument isn't convincing. It relies on a tired rethorical trick: invent some syndrome, claim it is the basis for something you don't like, then taint the syndrome. It doesn't convince. And in this case, the outcome will be negative: once everyone fully realizes we're just normal animals, why not behave like them? Meat's back on the menu.
- pawsforthought 4y agoExcept, industrial agriculture and fisheries are nothing like subsistence predation. I see no problem with hunter-gatherers’ predation of wildlife, provided they act in ecological balance with their environment (and they do tend to, out of self-preservation). That’s not the world the vast majority of us live in though. We kill on the order of 1 trillion animals every year. We’re devastating Earth’s biosphere for the sake of an unnecessary dietary choice. We’ll reap what we sow, sooner or later.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 4y ago> once everyone fully realizes we're just normal animals, why not behave like them? Lions hunt and eat pretty, they also regularly kill cubs when taking over a pride. Does that make infanticide acceptable? This argument is at least as silly as the parent's.
- gnubison 4y agoGP isn’t arguing for “we should behave like animals”, they are just using it to show inconsistencies in GGP’s argument.