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by Falling3 6y ago
People made the claim _while_ ignoring the evidence. And as I went on to argue, if you really want to play it safe and assume plant sentience, you would still adopt a plant-based diet.
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by Falling3 6y ago
The OP did not make a good point - they made a Nirvana Fallacy. And your analogy in no way captures that argument anyway.
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by Falling3 6y ago
Plants are not beings under any standard usage of the word. While plants certainly communicate and show some level of computational processing, there is no evidence they have subjective experiences. There is a very clearly line to be drawn
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by Falling3 6y ago
There's no way to sell eggs and turn a profit without killing hens. Their production wanes as they get older and they are killed to make way for the new generation. This has nothing to do with demand for meat. Your parent comment is ri
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by Falling3 6y ago
Of course not. But do we expect companies to stick to the decisions they made as startups forever?
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by Falling3 6y ago
The original comment referenced Trump's anti-mask attitude. His position was never just that you shouldn't be forced into wearing a mask; he was against masks period. He refused to wear one publicly while mocking others for wearin
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by Falling3 6y ago
It had absolutely nothing to do with freedom or rejection of totalitarianism. He could have easily encouraged people to wear a mask and set an example by wearing one himself. But you're right that it was about political value. Or at le
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by Falling3 6y ago
Yea, completely agree. I think context is very important here. We should not be making the same arguments for a one-person side business and a company with 400MM in revenue. Slack really can't stand on the arguments presented in the ar
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by Falling3 6y ago
I don't think anyone is going to argue that there are sites that provide huge utility in exchange for their size. No one is suggesting we google maps should clock in at less than a MB. But the point is that there's a continuing tr
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by Falling3 6y ago
Well, no. Laws are only created by Congress. Regulatory agencies can create non-trivial policies, and you might want to argue that the distinction between a regulatory policy and law is minimal or non-existent. But regulatory agencies are n
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by Falling3 6y ago
Does anyone know if this site was recently put together or if it's been around all along? WHOIS says the domain was registered back in '14. I love _why's writings and largely credit him with getting me excited about using Rub
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by Falling3 6y ago
First, your argument is different from the comment to which I replied. Whether Trump _is_ a racist and whether people have reasons for believing he is a racist that they can articulate are two completely different things. >I use the clas
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by Falling3 6y ago
> Trump "taking on the deep state" isn't even a conspiracy theory, he literally made that a major part of his 2016 campaign You're misframing this. The conspiracy theory is not that Trump is taking on the deep state;
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by Falling3 6y ago
How is overestimating the effect of money on election outcomes a conspiracy theory?
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by Falling3 6y ago
Yea... it's so weird how Trump keeps making these, at best, ambiguous statements where he has to explain later - sometimes days later, sometimes never - what he really meant. And really weird that, during that time, neo-nazis, white su
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by Falling3 6y ago
Everyone I know who claims Trump is racist can quickly and easily point to specific policies, quotes, and actions - both before and during his presidency. This meme that people don't have evidence for their issues with Trump is not onl
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by Falling3 6y ago
Impossible has had ongoing supply issues. My city is very vegan friendly and had at least a handful of restaurants service impossible burgers that disappeared when Burger King rolled their impossible whopper out. There may be other factors,
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by Falling3 6y ago
No. It's addressing a nonsensical claim in the parent comment. It is relevant in the context of that comment. And it's no more an appeal to emotion that the original comment was - which is to say not at all.
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by Falling3 6y ago
You do understand the end state of effectively all animal farming is slaughter - right? This culling does absolutely nothing to make an already incredibly cruel process any more cruel.
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by Falling3 6y ago
> anything pro-Trump being consistently flagged which is so fitting of your liberal friends. That's simply not true. There are pro-Trump comments here that are not being flagged or downvoted into oblivion. But they're the subst
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by Falling3 6y ago
The president is the face of leadership for the country. The way they address the country and the things they say is unquestionably a huge part of the presidency.
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by Falling3 6y ago
With all of his commentary about cities like Portland, one of the Proud Boys' favorite targets, there is almost no chance he's never heard of them. And with the number of documented, public lies made by him, why would you ever tak
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by Falling3 6y ago
You think his full quote that implies just _some_ Mexican-Americans and Mexicans living in America aren't rapists, drug dealers and criminals is acceptable? Or remotely factually accurate?
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by Falling3 6y ago
Please stop repeating the same comment, silently editing it, and deleting it when it's downvoted? You're very clearly not going to get any substantive replies. Biden won because people have legitimate issues with Trump. Deride it
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by Falling3 6y ago
I don't disagree with you that this is horrible... but you do know what the "happy path" for animals on farms is - right?
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by Falling3 6y ago
Your argument hinges on the conflation of decriminalization and legalization. We approved the former, not the latter and that absolutely makes a difference.
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by Falling3 6y ago
Some additional bad news about water if you don't like solvents in your food.
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by Falling3 6y ago
RTN's focus on freedom of speech while condemning Mailchimp's actions is absolutely meant as an equivocation that tries to apply Constitutional protections in an argument where they don't apply. And your comment does the exac
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by Falling3 6y ago
I sincerely wish we could have good faith discussions without false dichotomies.
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by Falling3 6y ago
How so? The thing that defied explanation was the fungi, not the twinki itself.

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