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by hjek 8y ago
> I noticed that a lot of people are hostile when you say you are doing it for ethical reasons (e.g. for animal welfare or environmentalism), but are satisfied with the idea that you're doing it for your own health. When you start t
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I eat vegan food, but I also recognise that there's a distinction between someone keeping rescued chickens in a back garden, and keeping them in tiny cages or on the floor giant barns with no light in such crammed conditions that they
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It is both sad and ironic, and it's only fair to call out this abuse for what it is. I'd just like to point out that this isn't something that applies to all vegans as there are some who try to communicate with less shaming a
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> In an illustrative comment on Tim Shieff’s video about quitting veganism, one viewer wrote, “Oh, well... this explains why you're looking so wasted, old & bloated in your recent videos. That’s so sad.” Those abusers would be b
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There's also the all-or-nothing fallacy, where you don't do anything because it's not perfect.
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> I wonder if event companies won't just buy multiple-use plastic plates and just throw them away anyway That would make those plastic plates single-use, wouldn't it? It raises the question of whether single-use is only about t
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It's a quote.
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> You should strive to make better choices, even if they are imperfect. Definitely. If some unachievable ideal of perfectionism is preventing us from doing anything at all, it's quite harmful. > What is better for animal well bei
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Other writings by ESR: http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/sextips/
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Yet if you also care about non-human pain and suffering, then that won't really help.
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Exactly. Locally grown veg are better than imported veg as well. Go for that whenever possible. But using this to present some false dilemma between a chicken raised on your own land and imported vegetables is just nonsense.
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And the reduced amount of suffering and pain.
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Vegans aren't against breastfeeding.
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> There is no way forward on climate that isn't structural and doesn't hold powerful organizations to account. There is a lot of truth in that. As it is now though, some meat eaters will say that businesses need to stop murderi
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No, because there is no such thing as servers belonging to Searx. Whoever wants to serve a Searx instance does so. It queries Google and Wikipedia and the like. It's a metasearch engine, so doesn't crawl the internet on its own. I
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Searx[0] is also worth checking out. It's fully free/libre and easy to host yourself. It uses other search engines, but so does at least DDG and Ecosia that are listed there. [0]: https://searx.me/
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> I think the debate pops up strongly now The debate's been going on for quite a while now though[0]. But yes, it didn't involve factory farms, antibiotics, dead zones or climate breakdown back then. > Your pet also would ea
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But it's also OK to grieve for murdered animals.
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There's generally not a big risk of bears overfishing salmon into near extinction in the massive fishing vessels that they don't possess, nor do they feed antibiotics to the salmon that they don't farm, so that's also no
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> How about animals we eat that are treated well? If a cow lives a happy life, is slaughtered as humanely as possible, and wouldn't have existed if not for our demand for meat, does that make that meat ethical? Maybe even more ethic
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> Personally, I'll be agnostic until consciousness is much better understood. How does this agnosticism work in practice? Does it mean that you don't worry about potential suffering and pain you might be causing others, or does
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> I'm not a vegetarian myself but I think that is more uncomfortable for me than for someone who doesn't believe animals have emotions. If you don't mind me asking, what do you think is making you still eat animals, given
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> But hey: we can already model a worm's nervous system. It surely is interesting to think about, at least as long as this Chinese Room way of thinking isn't used to dismiss or justify pain or suffering inflicted on other livin
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Yes, the demand for oil is a huge problem, and we should all do our best to stop driving and flying all the time. That said, I'd encourage you, if it's something that's economically possible for you, to consider finding work
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I'll just leave this here as well: https://www.gorillatough.com/product/gorilla-super-glue/
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> on both sides That sounds familiar? Oh, wait: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-defends-organi...
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> we'd stop them by all means Fully agree. This is not an issue where we just have to hope that one day someone in charge will fix it.
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Trees good. Ads bad.
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> I'd like to have privacy, but even if I take every measure I can take, unless I get rid of my credit cards, bank accounts, house, etc, I'll never have it anyway, so... So if you can't have perfect privacy, you'll ha
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Can `wget` easily upload files? More like `scp`, isn't it?

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