BagelGuy · HackerTrans

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I took a similar one, I remember "trying" really hard to prove to myself that I wasn't faking but about 30 seconds later I was looking about the room and struggling to recall if the screen changed at all. Was a nice confirmation of my issues.

BagelGuy

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Calculating future possibilities and making plans for all of them is hard work.

BagelGuy

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My foot hurts everyday but next to someone who had their's amputated I'm okay; therefore, my foot is fine.

BagelGuy

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I've never thought about it this way but it makes a lot of sense. In a world where it looks like everyone is tweeting there are actually a lot of people not tweeting, you just don't hear about them because, well, they aren't tweeting!

BagelGuy

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The Redditors are coming

BagelGuy

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If they aren't in physical danger why would they leave the office before 6pm?

BagelGuy

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Boredom + Freedom = Creativity.

BagelGuy

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It was pointing upwards

BagelGuy

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OH MY GOD THIS IS AMAZING HOW DID I NOW KNOW THIS

BagelGuy

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"If you genuinely believe the lives of mammals are morally equivalent to human lives"

I didn't say this ;)

Of course all human agriculture leads to animal suffering.

A more pertinent (and difficult to measure) metric would be suffering per calorie. Industrialized dairy is brutal. Momma cow is forcefully impregnated and separated from her baby so you can have that baby's milk in your coffee.

One could also argue that you have a higher moral obligations to a cow that you are exploiting than a mouse attempting to eat your grain.

BagelGuy

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Cognitive Dissonance is a powerful force.

BagelGuy

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  and there's no cognitive dissonance

There is but I've grown tired about arguing this on the internet.

Once you dive deep enough there aren't a whole lot of logically sound ethical theories that allow for one to systematically imprison, enslave, and murder these beings without allowing us to do the same to less intelligent humans (which most agree is horrifying).

It's a horrible thing that humans subject these beings to and we will look back on it with great shame.

If anyone reading this is open minded and interested in reading more, I'd recommend diving into the arguments against speciesism.

BagelGuy

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While their living conditions are better it seems a stretch to say that these farmers "care" much for the beings they imprison, artificially inseminate, and extract resources from.

I imagine they aren't providing much care for the males born from their cows.

BagelGuy

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Humanity built a suicidal doomsday machine that can be set off by accident.

It's not scare journalism to remind people of this.

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