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Your being dense on purpose? You think human as a specie isn't at the top? Like if we want we couldnt kill every animal specie?
We built civilization and you think we areny the apex?
So you believe in rule of the mightiest?
Can you even call yourself a leftist?
Maybe you have a point to make but this isn't it.
As i said in another comment, the way we treat animals is and should be different from they way we interact with other humans.
I dont advocate for the rule of the mightiest between humans. For animals, i think we dont have any moral obligation in the way we treat them. Doesnt mean im ok obliterated species or kill rare animal for sport, just that we are ok to eat them.
I think that way of thinking is problematic. Because you could easily swap "we have moral obligation only towards other humans" with "we have moral obligations only towards people of our own tribe / group". You can freely swap out who is in the protected in-group, and what is okay to do to the out-group as a result.
"For animals, I think we dont have any moral obligation in the way we treat them."
Yeah... Thats really fucked up thinking.
If it doesn't matter how we treat animals, why aren't you okay with wiping them out or hunting them for fun?
Think about it with a moral view. Should we kill millions of animals a year even tho we don't have to and is considerably worse for your health and to the environment?
Not quite the case. The way we in the western world consume meat is not particularly healthy. But a vegan diet is not healthier per se. You can have a pretty healthy diet that includes meat (although definitely with less meat than the average person in the western world consumes) and you can have a pretty healthy vegan diet. The difficulty with vegan diets is that humans are biologically omnivores, and while it is possible to lead a healthy vegan diet, one does have to be much more careful about their diet so that one doesn't miss any important nutrients. There's a reason the human palate is trained to like meat.
This is more an argument to reduce meat consumption than to eliminate it, something I am entirely for. Whatever food we consume, it will just about always have an impact on the environment. The question is how we can reduce that impact to a point where it is sustainable.
Idk, I never liked raw meat. You have to roast it until you taste either ash or Unami.
Jesus fuck, then you're roasting it entirely wrong.
But I like the taste of ash.
Which is why Jeff Bezos should be able to control your entire life, living conditions, reproduction, and milk you for all the money he possibly can, right? He is at the top of the food chain so you don’t get a say, and that’s good and moral. Right?
The interaction between human and human and animal and human are different.
Theres not much elso to say. What is true for how we treat animals, the fact we can eat them (in my opinion) because we are over them, doesnt reflect in how i think a human should and can treat another human. Thats it
lol why? So you can feel better about it? Which like, I get it people only have so much energy to deal with shit and if you can’t then if it makes you feel better to pretend then sure. I’m not here to make anyone go vegetarian or vegan or anything, but saying we’re the top of the food chain and that you’re a leftist is laughable. That’s some ancap shit.
It's at the top of the subjective hierarchy that you are inventing to justify your cruelty and violence. That's rationalization, that's not objective reality. That's how you cope with being a fucking monster.
We aren't talking about "we" were talking about you. Lions in general may be at the top of the food chain but an individual disabled lion isn't and is liable to get taken down by a species "lower down" like hyenas.
If you're justifying eating meat by the ability to kill another animal then unless you can prove you can kill a cow you shouldn't be eating steak.
You aren't a predator at the top of the food chain, at best you're a kleptoparasite appropriating the kills of others using money.
They can't read either. I've stated more than once in this thread that I hunt or buy locally for nearly all of the meat I consume. Let them feel superior for now. I'm hunting vegans if I ever run out of deer and feral hogs.