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Hopefully this will serve as a catalyst for helping to make people less dependent on farming animals as a way of life, both for the people who harvest/kill them

Hopefully this will serve as a catalyst for helping to make people less dependent on farming animals as a way of life, both for the people who harvest/kill them, and the folks who choose to eat them. The thought that a billion crabs could "disappear" is alarming and deeply saddening, but I'd like to hold onto the hope that they are out there still, simply living rather than being dredged up by the hundreds and unceremoniously killed. I wish the people who rely on the industry the best, unless that means more killing of innocent animals.

benj111 4y ago
So what would your take be, if this were seaweed? Or algae? Your post almost reads as if you're more concerned about the fishermen losing than the outcome of the crabs. So even from an animal rights pov, your comment seems. Flawed.
- sweetheart 4y ago
  My take would be: That really sucks, and I hope it's not indicative of more alarming things to come for the environment. I hope the industries affected are able to stabilize. > you're more concerned about the fishermen losing than the outcome of the crabs I'm concerned about both, so I'm confused how my comment is "flawed".
  - benj111 4y ago
    >I'm concerned about both, so I'm confused how my comment is "flawed". Well I already said how I was interpreting it. So I'm confused as to why you're confused. You are presumably aware that people can interpret things differently to what you may have intended. So when someone points out the failings in that interpretation, you should be able to understand it is based on that interpretation and that I'm not psychic and able to see what you meant to say whilst inserting a strawman argument of what I knew you didn't mean. To interpret further. And this is again my interpretation. You seem not to be able to empathise with people whose livelihoods are being threatened, the crabs, or me in this conversation.
    - sweetheart 4y ago
      124 words, and yet, nothing actually said.
yellowapple 4y ago
> Hopefully this will serve as a catalyst for helping to make people less dependent on farming animals as a way of life The article is about wild crab populations. That has precisely nothing to do with it - except that if anything, farming crabs would reduce the need to go scoop them up from the wild.
- sweetheart 4y ago
  You're right. Harvesting crabs is what I meant.

benj111 4y ago

So what would your take be, if this were seaweed? Or algae? Your post almost reads as if you're more concerned about the fishermen losing than the outcome of the crabs. So even from an animal rights pov, your comment seems. Flawed.

sweetheart 4y ago
My take would be: That really sucks, and I hope it's not indicative of more alarming things to come for the environment. I hope the industries affected are able to stabilize. > you're more concerned about the fishermen losing than the outcome of the crabs I'm concerned about both, so I'm confused how my comment is "flawed".
- benj111 4y ago
  >I'm concerned about both, so I'm confused how my comment is "flawed". Well I already said how I was interpreting it. So I'm confused as to why you're confused. You are presumably aware that people can interpret things differently to what you may have intended. So when someone points out the failings in that interpretation, you should be able to understand it is based on that interpretation and that I'm not psychic and able to see what you meant to say whilst inserting a strawman argument of what I knew you didn't mean. To interpret further. And this is again my interpretation. You seem not to be able to empathise with people whose livelihoods are being threatened, the crabs, or me in this conversation.
  - sweetheart 4y ago
    124 words, and yet, nothing actually said.

yellowapple 4y ago

> Hopefully this will serve as a catalyst for helping to make people less dependent on farming animals as a way of life The article is about wild crab populations. That has precisely nothing to do with it - except that if anything, farming crabs would reduce the need to go scoop them up from the wild.

sweetheart 4y ago
You're right. Harvesting crabs is what I meant.