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by meric
3879 days ago
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The thing about "rob[bing] your own rich" is that the many of the richest members of our societies [in the UK] are rich because of chance, because of rent seeking, because despite the world belonging to mankind they by violence [usually of their ancestors] have acquired a larger share of it's resources. Why is it unjust to redistribute such wealth? Can you categorically say all of the richest in your country are rich because of chance and rent seeking? Even if yes, can you categorically say all of the richest in your country are rich because of their exploitation of British people? Or did some of them rich because of their ancestors exploitation of India or through the Chinese opium trade? I get what you're saying with not letting the 9 people starve, but justifying it by saying "they deserve their stuff taken because they're exploiting us" is the emotional logic that led to holocaust, or the cultural revolution, events where millions are displaced and killed. Cows & Pigs don't deserve to be murdered for their meat, but we do it, to live. You got to do it, not because they deserve it, but because it's what you got to do. If you are going to do it, own it. |
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We dont _need_ to eat meat. We _want_ to eat meat. We want it so much that we'll kill them to get it.
But for some psycho-social reason unknown to me, we're not willing to flat out admit that, and spend aeons constructing convoluted arguments why we are so so sorry but cant avoid killing them.
> If you are going to do it, own it.
As you can observe, exactly that last bit absolutely doesnt work. For some reason theyll fight tooth and nail to avoid admitting "I'll kill you now because you taste soo delicious".