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What hills are you dying on? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 day ago by SpaceFox@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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. The race of a voice actor doesn't matter

. It is possible to wear yoga pants because there comfy

. You don't need to shower everyday

. It is possible to crossdress/be gender non-conforming without being trans

. Monty Python is very overrated

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[–] Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org -3 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Inflicting pain and suffering is bad, especially if done for selfish reasons, like pleasure (and tbh if someone were to disagree with that, I'd dont want to talk to them). Exploiting animals is exactly that, taste pleasure to be exact.

[–] anarchaos@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

eating meat doesn't inflict any pain or suffering though.

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 minute ago

It does, because the meat industry is tremendously abusive to animals. Ontop of that it's a poor use of land and it contributes greatly to global warming. But for sure, the animals feel pain and suffering assuming it is possible for them to do so. Trillions of shrimp die horribly painful deaths every year, but nobody cares because they have a funny-sounding name.

[–] Artemis_Mystique@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

classic first worlder with their elevated standard of living:

Animal based protein is often cheaper and more easily accessible
herbivores as a middle step helps digest frankly indigestible plants

I am not disagreeing with you there is a fine line between acceptable and gluttonous, but acting holier than though, just cause you insistently chew grass and destroy your gut biome doesn't help the animals

[–] Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org -1 points 8 hours ago

Would you be happier with the moral baseline being "Whoever can go vegan, should"?

BTW. there is only one world :)