• OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml
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        3 months ago

        Can anyone downvoting this explain how vegans are not morally superior?

        • Not a vegan btw
        • Cowbee [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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          3 months ago

          I would be very surprised. I am not even fully vegan myself, people just don’t want to confront their own moral issues.

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          3 months ago

          Yes, they are, unless you can make the argument that animal suffering and environmental destruction are good things.

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            3 months ago

            being vegan doesn’t do anything about those

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              3 months ago

              It reduces demand for meat, lowering production, ergo lowering environmental impact and animal suffering. Simple as.

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                3 months ago

                It reduces demand for meat, lowering production

                production increases every year.

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                    3 months ago

                    there is not any way to prove such a claim, as you cannot prove a counterfactual.

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          3 months ago

          This isn’t about being smug or not. Veganism is morally superior as long as you consider that animals suffer for Human Consumption, envionmental impacts of animal products far outweigh vegan alternatives, and humans can get all of their nutrition from vegan sources.

          The reason humans eat meat is for pleasure and profit, neither of which can be considered “morally superior” to the benefits of Veganism.

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        3 months ago

        I really hope it’s a cultural difference, but where I’m from, calling someone a ‘morally inferior feminine whiner’ “having a full on tantrum” because they said something you dislike with is frowned upon.

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          3 months ago

          Flattening “I deserve to murder terrified children slaves because I’m a picky eater” to “something I dislike” is a bigger offense than your misquote.

          But your description of the carnists in this thread is not inaccurate, minus the misogyny you’re illiterately trying to paint me with.

          But no matter what, wherever there’s suffering; wherever there’s exploitation, there’s a .world account defending it in the most trite, superficial way possible.