Professional software engineer, musician, gamer, stoic, democratic socialist
I’m not making a larger claim here, I’m just asking the vegetarians to explain the logic of their belief.
It sounds like now you’re saying that you want to reduce pain rather than the killing of intelligent/conscious life.
In that case would you be OK with slaughterhouses if they treated the animals humanely and killed them as quickly as possible before they could feel significant pain?
You’re so right. I guess it doesn’t matter what happens between now and the inevitable future. -_-
It is in my country.
Did you read the comment I replied to?
For me there’s no morals tied to the level of consciousness. That allows for cherry picking.
No I wouldn’t. But I would kill and eat an insect, fish, or bird.
Ok but plants are also living beings so you should not eat them by your rule.
How is it not? The most popular GPT models are trained on copyrighted works.
don’t demonize tools, demonize what people do with the tools that’s damaging
Depends on what tool you’re talking about.
Sadly in this case the tool, in its product form, is already in breach of a moral principle, because it is a derivative work and stealing labor without consent.
If you are referring to the GPT algorithms, that’s more subtle. We need to figure out how to regulate it better.
Is your belief based on an animal’s capacity for consciousness? If so do you think all animals, regardless of their intelligence, deserve the right to not be eaten? Where would you draw the line?
On that topic, Japan is 100% reliable for returning a dropped wallet.
What if one day you woke up and your nipples were completely gone like no scars or anything just flat skin and then once you leave your room you find out your dad died last night and several days later you find out that your entire life he had been sneaking in your room while you slept and sucking on your chest to make two gigantic hickeys where your nipples should be because you were born without them not for any sexual reason just so you would fit in…
It’s amazing how surgical he is while you can see he is literally shaking from anger. It’s like the anger just adds fuel to the fire of his rhetorical wit.
We know how Jon handles this exact situation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCuIxIJBfCY
Musk will be roasted and embarrassed.
Honestly who fucking cares if DOGE is actually efficient. Elon is an appointed executive branch official who hasn’t been confirmed by the senate. He is wielding power unconstitutionally and needs to be removed immediately.
He’s also stealing our tax dollars through government contracts. Trump does the same thing.
His last special SuperNature had some jokes making fun of trans women and the people who defend them.
I won’t lie and say I didn’t laugh at the final punchline. But yeah these jokes are pretty counterproductive and just reinforce bigotry.
Delta is passable. They’re overpriced, and you’re trading leg room for a stupid headrest TV with an unnecessarily tiny headphone jack. But other than that, it’s a decent flying experience.
I’d fly Alaska instead. Not sure how they treat employees though.
We just keeping making it harder to be a teacher without paying them any more.
How can we organize funding for a national teachers’ strike?
My attempt to disambiguate was to add the word “feeling”. I suppose maybe you could “feel” like you are nauseating others. This is part of the reason I like to be precise with word choice.
Your last point hinges on a false equivalency. Imprisonment is also a crime, but we let the government imprison dangerous people for public safety. It’s different when the government does it.
Obviously the death penalty is a different situation, but your logic doesn’t hold up in either case.
To be clear, I don’t support the death penalty. But people on the Internet seem to hate it when I play devil’s advocate to sharpen an argument.