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Veganism is Leftism (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/mop
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[+] 24 points 6 months ago (7 children)
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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    Life eats life and I do not have the emotional fortitude to let that get to me. The other animals are out there eating each other alive, it's a horror show, and the expectation for humans to somehow be above and separate from nature is, imo, unrealistic.

    Noone deserves to be eaten but if an animal is hungry they have every right to try and eat me and I have the right to defend myself.

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  • [–] 15 points 6 months ago* (3 children)

    YOU DON'T HAVE TO. YOU DON'T HAVE TO EAT ANIMALS. You are CHOOSING to. And you are using the fact that other animals HAVE TO EAT OTHER ANIMALS to justify it. You're not going to feel bad about your UNNECESSARY cruelty and violence simply because cruelty and violence exist in the universe? That's fucking stupid, you see that, right? Your rationalizations are transparent and the lies you tell yourself are not convincing to others!

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    All of the violence and cruelty that exists in the universe is unnecessary, not just mine. The universe is unnecessary, for that matter. If I decided to focus on that, I could only conclude that total annihilation is the answer to suffering and I'd rather eat chicken. It's a choice, not a lie.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    You wouldn't even be capable of staring at your own navel this hard if your ancestors hadn't taken to eating our furry neighbors. And you have no idea the emissions caused by my diet, but since I hunt the majority of my meat I'm actually reducing the emissions of local deer herds and hog sounders in my area. I do not participate in beef farming at all, but mostly because I find it to be boring of flavor and overly expensive, not out of any moral obligation.

    I am not an apex predator? Sure, I'm an omnivore. Now, however, if I am not at the top of the chain, how about you tell me what might be hunting me?

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