Not in a great spot. My material needs are met, so don’t worry about that. Just want to break out of the cycle I’m in of “oh hey, you have only a few hundred from this paycheck before you’re negative again.”
If I saw someone’s actions as tantamount to genocide then I wouldn’t simply agree to disagree. That’s what I understand and that’s why I’m not asking her to hear me out.
Not good enough. You clearly don’t view the animal holocaust as genocide. You don’t have the right to simply disengage when the facts don’t suit your material interests. Your actions have real-life harmful consequences on the lived experience of subjective, animal people.
Three questions:
- How do you define sentience?
- What is the base value of humans?
- What do you call systemic killing?
I’ll give you the answers now to save time:
- capability of feeling
- capability of feeling. Therefore, you should extend the base value of humans to other animals, who are also capable of feeling.
- genocide
The insult doesn’t bother me. I had to actually google that term because I didn’t know what it meant, and I’m actually quite impressed I gave the impression of a philosopher, as much as I find them as a general rule of thumb revolting people.
Your insult does beg the question, though: Are values unimportant to you? I focus a lot on values in the points I make. I value human life, for example, and that’s why I became anticapitalist. My value for them means I believe shelter should be a human right, and therefore I’m against capitalist private property, like landlordism, for example.
I did say:
You don’t have the right to simply disengage when the facts don’t suit your material interests.
So… …engaaage and stop ignoring / avoiding the issue vegans raise?
