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Dr Grandin is autistic. That jarring sense is you being normal. Normal people who feel empathy for something have a hard time killing it. This plays out in u
by michael1999 4y ago
Dr Grandin is autistic. That jarring sense is you being normal. Normal people who feel empathy for something have a hard time killing it.
This plays out in ugly ways in that business -- they either hire psychos who enjoy being cruel _because_ then know that the animals suffer, or the people doing the work convince themselves that the animals are too "dumb" to understand what's happening, and are incapable of suffering. Grandin complains that workers often undo her changes after the fact (e.g. removing a piece of metal that blocks a view of the killing bolt) because they don't understand that the changes aren't to make _their_ jobs easier, and the workers are either constitutionally incapable of understanding how those changes serve the cows, or that the cows deserve any consideration at all.
Any fisherman will tell you that fish can't suffer.
- DonHopkins 4y agoHow do you know they're normal? "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." -Hunter S. Thompson
- anotherevan 4y agoPerhaps you mean "neurotypical" when you are saying "normal".
- pannSun 4y ago"Typical" and "normal" are synonyms to all except those seeking a reason to be offended.
- anotherevan 4y agoI wasn't particularly offended by the original comment. Am vacillating a little between offended and amused by yours. There are several autistic people in my life that I love and have watched have very real, not just semantic battles with what is considered normal. Both inward and outward struggles.
- pannSun 4y agoI fail to see how these battles make "typical" and "normal" not synonymous.
- nikodotio 4y agoThere is no such thing as neurotypical: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20191008-why-the-normal-brain-is-just-a-myth https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20191008-why-the-normal-b...