• Grail@multiverse.soulism.net
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    10 days ago

    I think you’re a leftist when it comes to labour rights, housing, and healthcare for humans. I also think you’re in favour of imprisonment, forced labour, and a might-makes-right worldview justified by the appeal to nature fallacy, all of which are traditionally associated with fascism. In short, I think you’re a very complex individual with a wide range of political views on different topics.

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      10 days ago

      Any imprisonment is cruel and unusual. Kinder to kill a man than to lock him away from the world. All labour should be at will. If you don’t want to work you should be able to stay out of the way. A universal basic income is needed for this if we don’t somehow erase commerce entirely, because folks gotta eat and sleep. Cool, do it. If labor is truly voluntary that increases its value too, Production has to make it worth participating. Jobs would still feel like jobs, but they wouldn’t feel like shackles. It’s a pretty notion I think. Fascism appalls me, I was raised by a civil rights activist that helped arm and train minorities in the 60s and 70s. I have actively fought bigotry since the early 90s when I was in highschool. I have participated in a riot when the cops killed a young man for no good reason and my city exploded for a minute. Now on to this “might makes right” horseshit you are so wrapped around the axle on, you seem to have lost touch with the simple fact that man is an animal as natural as any out there. There are many, many species that are carnivores or omnivores and we are no better or worse than any of them or those that choose to eat at the salad bar, in fact we are them too.

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        9 days ago

        Any imprisonment is cruel and unusual

        So putting chickens in tiny filthy cages where they’re so stressed out that they have to be debeaked, because otherwise they’ll peck themselves to death, is cruel and unusual?

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          9 days ago

          Of course. Chickens belong in a yard or a pasture. You still occasionally have to cull the unnecessarily violent ones from time to time.

          People need to spend more time in the yard and not be in cages too. I live 50 miles from the closest town you might have heard of. I don’t have neighbors. Part of my property is a registered wildlife habitat. Society sucks so I do my best not to participate any more than I have to.

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            9 days ago

            Well, most of the chicken and eggs at the store comes from chickens in those tiny cages. So are you going to boycott these evil chicken corporations?

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                  9 days ago

                  I have a couple pasture farms relatively close, certainly closer than going into town. I live pretty far out in the country and have better options than folks in the city for what meats I buy. Most of the meat my family consumes is harvested from the forest and processed at home or fished out of local lakes.

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                    9 days ago

                    Then why did you use yourself as a counterexample to this meme? Seems like you’re not exploiting animals near as much as the city carnists are, so why reply? Just to ragebait?