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by 000ooo000 1001 days ago
>Philosophical take: Every day animals kill other animals to survive. We can't change that. Why should humans be forbidden to kill & eat animals?

Adopting the moral code of animals, as justification for killing them, while simultaneously leaning on our supremely advanced intelligence to separate us from them so that we don't feel bad about it. Ironic.
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chrisandchris 1000 days ago
That's a thought I didn't have and now I'm getting downvoted for having an opinion.
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000ooo000 999 days ago
It's unfortunate. Hard to have open conversations about this stuff because of how it reflects on one's moral identity. Vegans say "don't kill animals", nonvegans hear "you're a bad person". Nonvegans say "animals kill animals, why can't we?" and vegans hear "you are stupid". Probably not all that different to a lot of discourse really.
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