I've donated my time. I've knocked on doors. I've gathered signatures. I've phone banked. I've given my votes. the worst thing that can happen is they win. I get stabbed in the back every time.

volunteering on a campaign isn't laudable. it's for suckers.

i don't know what this is supposed to mean

demanding people be paid for their work is the most communist position

There is a concrete instance of a chicken that is being tortured for profit currently.

i don't think that's true.

volunteering for politicians

the campaigns get money. make them pay.

Your consumption drives the production.

you're wrong. it's not causal.

this is some pretty tortured logic.

I'm not doing either of those

symmetric blocking is too powerful. it lets non-admins/non-mods decide who can comment. straight blocking removes specific users from your experience without giving you a veto on whether they see and can interact with content downstream of you.

they may not even be responding to you, but a comment of a comment on a post you happen to have made. why should your block be able to stifle that??

On a long enough horizon we can’t tell how anything will play out.

which is why consequentialism can't actually tell us the right thing to do. it's a fatally flawed ethical approach.

since ethics can't be derived from possible future outcomes, they must come from somewhere else. kant proposes it's the categorical imperative. divine command theorists propose from God or a holy text.

neither of those systems axiomatically say to reduce suffering.

I addressed the assertion that eating meat causes suffering. that's simply untrue.

calling me a zoophile is baseless.