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That is the magic of modernity...: You create factories that, proudly, slaughter up to a million pig [1] a year, and then sell that (subsidized) meat so cheap,
by LunarAurora 4y ago
That is the magic of modernity...: You create factories that, proudly, slaughter up to a million pig [1] a year, and then sell that (subsidized) meat so cheap, most people will just get accustomed (almost addicted) to eating so much of it.
Now, what happens when you restrict an addict? what did you call that again? "the worst kinds of violence". Yeah, I agree. It is violent. Who's to blame ?
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/nov/25/chinas-26-storey-pig-skyscraper-ready-to-produce-1-million-pigs-a-year https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/nov/25/chinas-2...
- linksnapzz 4y ago"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under of robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber barons cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some points be satiated; but those who torment us for their own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to heaven yet at the same time likely to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be “cured” against one’s will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on the level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals." -C.S. Lewis