• FelixCress@lemmy.worldOP
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    23 hours ago

    And? How do you know that plants are not screaming from pain of being cut?

    The reality is we don’t know. We don’t even really know how other humans perceive pain (as it is highly subjective), nevermind mind other species.

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      23 hours ago

      that might be one of the infinite mysteries of the universe, like whether everything is actually a boltzmann brain’s fleeting hallucation, but fortunately we do know with certainty that animals scream and flail and panic and thrash when you try to kill them on account of having a very very similar nervous and cognitive system to you, and also that you have to cut a fuckload of plants to feed them before you kill them anyway

      hope that helps

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                  22 hours ago

                  yeah animals do all sorts of fucked up shit humans agree is bad but then often do anyway like kill or rape or whatever, but we applied that big brain of ours and came up with stuff like Philosophy and Hydroponics and Soya Burger and now we don’t have to kill others to survive or rape to spread our genes or pretend that animals in pain are Literally The Same as cut grass

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                    22 hours ago

                    we applied that big brain of ours

                    That’s how we can now eat steaks without hunting. Everyday if we want to.

                    Soya Burger

                    Enjoy your heavily processed plant pulp. Just remember, plants also scream for help when you cut them.