• theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world
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        4 months ago

        People would probably be more supportive of your cause if you didn’t exaggerate in the most extreme and incorrect ways

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          4 months ago

          You’re a dairy shill that lacks moral intelligence.

          Of course you find the truth exaggerative when you’ve twisted your ethics to only consider rape a human phenomenon.

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            I’ve never claimed that rape is only a “human phenomenon”. Artificial insemination of livestock is not raping them though.

            I just have common sense and understand that nuance exists.

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              Artificial insemination is rape. It involves non-consensual penetration of another animal. It can happen by a bull, by a human, or by any other animal (or alien for that matter). Makes no difference for the animal that is on the receiving end.

              Your idea of nuance quite conveniently means that the moral caution you afford to humans isn’t afforded to animals, which is anthropocentrist and egocentric. If ever in the future you call yourself empathetic, know that you absolutely aren’t.

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                Artificial insemination is rape.

                Factually incorrect

                Your idea of nuance quite conveniently means that the moral caution you afford to humans isn’t afforded to animals

                Yes, absolutely, things are different in different situations and contexts. That’s literally how nuance works. Absolutism and reducing morality down to black-and-white is incorrect.

                If ever in the future you call yourself empathetic, know that you absolutely aren’t.

                🙄 yeah, using actual rape victims’ suffering to push your personal agenda makes you super empathetic and the good guy… oh brother

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                  Factually incorrect

                  Nope, I’m right. Rape is the non-consensual penetration of another animal’s vaginal, anal, or oral orifices. Applies to humans, cows, or any other animal.

                  things are different in different situations and contexts.

                  But humans and animals are the same in their capacity to experience pain and pleasure (i.e. to be sentient). That capacity may vary according to species, but your lack of recognition for that once again proves to me how egocentric you are. How fucking dull.

                  actual rape victims

                  You mean cows right? And women? And any other member of a species that experiences rape? You cannot gatekeep this to just humans. Seems to me that you’re the one disrespecting rape victims here by denying how other species can experience the same.

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          Cows produce more milk if they’re forcibly impregnated every year. Supporting cow milk is supporting rape, this is a fact.

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            Look, I don’t disagree with your point necessarily, but you’re not winning over literally anyone in this thread. It’s just not happening.

            Nobody ever has been convinced that dairy is rape and meat is murder by some Lemmy user saying “dairy is rape” and following up with “because it is”.

            Most obviously, your primary argument is consequentialism, which many people just don’t see as a valid form of ethics. Many people subscribe to deontology instead, and so they don’t see it as rape because they are not obtaining sexual gratification from artificial insemination or drinking milk.

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              You’re telling me motive makes a bad thing okay to do under deontology? In other words, it’s okay for a deontologist to murder someone if they have a cool motive?

              I dunno I thought Kant said you should never do bad things even if you have a good reason.

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                Imo, Kant’s principles don’t really apply in this scenario, the Categorical Imperative applies to human-to-human treatment. Kant’s primary principle is act as such it would become universal law. Animal consumption is already a universal law.

                Murder (of a human) is wrong because when applied universally, then society collapses. Theft is wrong because when applied universally, the right of property, and therefore society, collapses.

                Animal consumption doesn’t cause societal collapse.

                Thoughts?

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                  Animal consumption causes factory farming, and farming causes chickens to develop stress-induced autophagia. I don’t like it when the chickens are so unhappy they eat themselves and need to be debeaked. We should all stop doing things that cause that.

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            4 months ago

            They have got a point. You know what they mean. People will ignore you if you push your narrative too far, in their opinion

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              4 months ago

              Let’s ignore all protestors because they’re annoying I’m sure fossil fuels and Israel would be very pleased with your comment 🤪

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              Because I said “animal rape?” How dare I state blatantly where the beloved dairy products come from, the horror!

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                Apparently it doesn’t bother you that you make veganism look bad since you chose to be sarcastic like that. You’re actively preventing veganism

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                  Are you a vegan?

                  If not, who are you to say you know what’s best for our movement?

                  Activism from all sides is important to the cause. You downplaying this Lemming’s activism is serving to silence their voice

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                  I’m with this guy.

                  Also I think even if they want to make the most forfecul point possible, I don’t think talking about consent is the greatest thing.

                  Should really impress the fact that they’re won’t produce milk unless they’ve been pregnant. So dairy cows are kept pregnant as much as possible. They live like five years then collapse of exhaustion and get carted to the slaughterhouse.

                  The cows my late grandma tended to in her youth lived like 20 years.

                  Industrial intensive farming is immoral as fuck but I can’t really pretend like the cow understands sexual assault.

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          How do you think cows make milk on large, industrial scales?

          Do you think they’re always producing milk? Or that the industry switched cows out 1 by 1 as each and every one stops making milk?

          If you don’t the answer to these important, fundamental questions, you are living an ignorant life