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You should try Polvo à Lagareiro or Pulpo a la Gallega, life is too short to not eat good food.

by vasco 2y ago

marliechiller 2y ago
You should try eating young children, life is too short to not eat good food. That's what that sounds like to someone that opts not to eat something on the basis of its intelligence
- drawkward 2y ago
  well, except for the switch to cannibalism.
- jjk166 2y ago
  There are a lot of second order benefits to eating irish children, I think most would consider such a proposal modest.
- vasco 2y ago
  If my parents and everyone around me for thousands of years ate young children and they all told me it was legal and tasty and good for you, I probably would. But since it's not it'd seem you're making a false equivalency from the top of your horse.
  - Intralexical 2y ago
    Wasn't this kinda the plot of The Giver? Not eating, but killing. It took them some work to undo the indoctrination. Middle-school me wasn't sure if that was right. But empathy is actually an involuntary instinct in most humans, and I think Lowry was right in that most people will find such things "evil" when faced with the its reality. Of course in real life there are places and situations where it is normalized to harm children. E.G. Currently unfolding with Sean Combs. But anybody outside those situations rightfully considers that disgusting and aberrant on finding out, and those inside it find ways to bury and rationalize their discomfort and end up traumatized for it instead of actually thinking it's good. Either way, analogy is not false equivalency. And neither are OP's moral decisions an indictment of your culinary preference, nor does your culinary preference have any bearing on OP's morally motivated decisions.
inkcapmushroom 2y ago
They already said they used to love eating octopus. You reply they should try eating octopus because it's tasty. They already tried it before and decided to give it up for reasons beyond how it tastes.
- vasco 2y ago
  Yeah but in case they didn't try the best dishes they might not know the extent of what they are missing.

You should try Polvo à Lagareiro or Pulpo a la Gallega, life is too short to not eat good food.

by vasco 2y ago

You should try Polvo à Lagareiro or Pulpo a la Gallega, life is too short to not eat good food.

You should try eating young children, life is too short to not eat good food. That's what that sounds like to someone that opts not to eat something on the basis of its intelligence

drawkward 2y ago
well, except for the switch to cannibalism.
jjk166 2y ago
There are a lot of second order benefits to eating irish children, I think most would consider such a proposal modest.
vasco 2y ago
If my parents and everyone around me for thousands of years ate young children and they all told me it was legal and tasty and good for you, I probably would. But since it's not it'd seem you're making a false equivalency from the top of your horse.
- Intralexical 2y ago
  Wasn't this kinda the plot of The Giver? Not eating, but killing. It took them some work to undo the indoctrination. Middle-school me wasn't sure if that was right. But empathy is actually an involuntary instinct in most humans, and I think Lowry was right in that most people will find such things "evil" when faced with the its reality. Of course in real life there are places and situations where it is normalized to harm children. E.G. Currently unfolding with Sean Combs. But anybody outside those situations rightfully considers that disgusting and aberrant on finding out, and those inside it find ways to bury and rationalize their discomfort and end up traumatized for it instead of actually thinking it's good. Either way, analogy is not false equivalency. And neither are OP's moral decisions an indictment of your culinary preference, nor does your culinary preference have any bearing on OP's morally motivated decisions.

inkcapmushroom 2y ago

They already said they used to love eating octopus. You reply they should try eating octopus because it's tasty. They already tried it before and decided to give it up for reasons beyond how it tastes.

vasco 2y ago
Yeah but in case they didn't try the best dishes they might not know the extent of what they are missing.