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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yet without the radicals that are willing to rock the boat, our society would be morally stagnant and unable to progress. We're literally having the conservative/progressive debate.

I assume the case you're referring to is the recent Just Stop Oil case? I personally see the judge's decision as incredibly short sighted. He's put short term convenience above averting global catastrophe for all life on earth. In my view, it is he who has caused his fellow citizens harm, and on a much wider scale.

[–] MapleEngineer -2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Self-absolution. I understand it but it is a logical failure.

Should anti-LGBTQ fanatics who are absolutely convinced that they are morally superior be able to discriminate against LQBTQ people?

Should anti-abotionists who are absolutely convinced that they are morally superior be able to harass and threaten women making the most difficult decision of their life? Should they be allowed to fire bomb clinics? Shoot abortion doctors and nurses?

Should white spremacists who are absolutely convinced of their racial superiority be allowed to refuse service to people of color? Burn crosses on lawns? Hang people of color from trees by the neck?

Where does the vegan fanatics self-absolution end? Fire bombing restaurant? Pipe bombs wrapped in nails in crowded restaurants that serve meat?

The ability to self-absolve is very VERY dangerous. It permits fanatics to justify any ammoral horror in the name of their mistaken moral purity.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Except you can say this literal exact thing about the opposites too

Should black people have just stayed slaves and not have rights even though "they are absolutely convinced they should have"? Should us queer people never fight back and fight for acceptance? Etc etc.

The actual difference is the arguments for the specific position. What sound arguments are there for racism and slavery? What sound arguments are there for queer-phobia? What sound arguments are there for not following a vegan diet beyond "it tastes good"?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Where does the vegan fanatics self-absolution end? Fire bombing restaurant? Pipe bombs wrapped in nails in crowded restaurants that serve meat?

Usually it ends at the terrifying act of talking with people, because harming them would be explicitly against their own philosophy.

But yeah, it's totally like a jihad or something.

[–] MapleEngineer -4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That's self-serving nonsense. Vegan extremists have been harassing and intimidating restaurateurs and their patrons attempting to drive them out of business or to comply with their demands to stop serving meat. That is not, "the terrifying act of talking".

What if you're mistaken about being morally superior? What if your actions toward other humans demonstrate a complete lack of any morality?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Profiting off the suffering of others isn't acceptable behavior. Establishments that do so should be boycotted where possible and practicable. I think protest is a justified response.

Given two scenarios where I'm potentially wrong, the one where I'm mistaken and vegan is the one with a substantially more ethical outcome than the one where I'm mistaken and not vegan.

[–] MapleEngineer -4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Profiting off the suffering of others isn’t acceptable behavior. Establishments that do so should be boycotted where possible and practicable. I think protest is a justified response.

Abuse. Torture. Murder.

Vegan extremists throw those words around like they are universal facts of animal farming. They are in large concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) which is what the things that you might refer to as, "factory farms" are actually called. Small family farms, homesteads, and crofts treat their animals far better than CAFOs do. Animals aren't abused or tortured on most family farms. When you use ridiculous inflammatory language like that most people stop listening to anything else you have to say.

Given two scenarios where I’m potentially wrong, the one where I’m mistaken and vegan is the one with a substantially more ethical outcome than the one where I’m mistaken and not vegan.

The issue isn't you being vegan. Take the back of your hand off your forehead and calm down. I don't care what you eat. If you want to eat vegan eat vegan. The problem is that the extremists start throwing around words like carnist, corpse muncher, blood mouth, cadaver, murder, etc. and no one takes them seriously anymore. I do the same thing when the extreme right uses the word, "woke" or the trans extremists use the word, "terf". It immediately causes me to stop caring about anything else they have to say.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

I didn't realize I wasn't being calm. Maybe I'll have to get my b12 levels checked. Nice talking with ya.