• werty@sh.itjust.works
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    Life eats life and I do not have the emotional fortitude to let that get to me. The other animals are out there eating each other alive, it’s a horror show, and the expectation for humans to somehow be above and separate from nature is, imo, unrealistic.

    Noone deserves to be eaten but if an animal is hungry they have every right to try and eat me and I have the right to defend myself.

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      YOU DON’T HAVE TO. YOU DON’T HAVE TO EAT ANIMALS. You are CHOOSING to. And you are using the fact that other animals HAVE TO EAT OTHER ANIMALS to justify it. You’re not going to feel bad about your UNNECESSARY cruelty and violence simply because cruelty and violence exist in the universe? That’s fucking stupid, you see that, right? Your rationalizations are transparent and the lies you tell yourself are not convincing to others!

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        All of the violence and cruelty that exists in the universe is unnecessary, not just mine. The universe is unnecessary, for that matter. If I decided to focus on that, I could only conclude that total annihilation is the answer to suffering and I’d rather eat chicken. It’s a choice, not a lie.

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          I dare you to show your genuinely asinine comment to someone you respect. This is exactly the transparent rationalization I’m describing directly to your benighted face.

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      Animals also go to war and humans have gone to war for all of their history. That doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t strive for pacifism because that’s separating us from nature.