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If you eat meat and this kind of story upsets you, please do some careful examination of why the industrial animal torture industries do not.
It's because killing an animal companion for being disobedient and then telling your children what happened and why you did it, is textbook serial killer behavior.
It's not the same as say running a homestead and telling the children why some of the livestock are gone now.
Only speaking for myself as I can't get into others heads, the red flag is her power trip. The dog only existed to serve her despite her daughter's attachment to it and would have lived to old age if only it obeyed.
That's the terrifying part.
People who killed the family pet for failing to be obedient tend to eventually work up to humans.
People who work the buzzsaw at a chicken plant, as gross as it is, don't.
Uh.. What do you think animals bred for slaughter are?
That's a different definition of "serve".
Pigs aren't trained to do tasks then slaughtered if they fail.
They're bred specifically for slaughter and then killed when they reach prime weight.
A "life on the farm" story doesn't convey an implied threat of if you cause me problems you may get shot in the head like this does.
Yes, instead they're bred explicitly to kill, they don't even have the chance to earn the right to live a full life serving humans
Sure but that's a separate convo.
I just answered the question of why the governor of South Dakota boasting about shooting her (and her daughter's) dog dead because it wasn't progressing along with training in a way she approved of is more horrifying to me than the existence of the slaughter industry.
It's fair to say this person is much more deranged than the average meat defender, but the core issue of animal slaughter remains in this instance and in meat consumption. An animal's life was cut short because a human decided they wanted to do that
it would if the children in the metaphor see the family livestock being treated by their parents the way industrial dairy and beef cattle are typically abused instead of some homestead fantasy
I answered the question asked, why this is different, and more upsetting, than livestock slaughter.
Animal ethics aside, the weird kid who keeps killing outside cats for meowing too much is much scarier than the weird kid who eats nothing but hotdogs and chicken nuggets.
If you can't understand that I don't know how else to explain it to you.
Can you explain why some animals are livestock that can be killed whenever you feel like eating them and some are animal companions that deserve to live until old age? 🤔
wait the steakhouse from the simpsons is real? I thought there was some kind of schedule dictated by agricultural processes and cyclic demand projections.
It's ultimately treating animals as property to be done with as the human sees fit with no regard for the animal's desire to live
Sure, this is more mask off in that regard, but it's still the same core issue. All animals deserve to live whether they were brought into the world to be used for the clothing industry, factory farming, or a pet
This is pretty into the weeds, the vast majority of people could stand to at least attempt vegetarian diets rather than meat for every meal which is where the original commenter's point on "industrial torture industry" comes from
If everyone who is able to do so were doing so, the fraction of a fraction of the population who was unable to for whatever reason would not result in the torture factories present today
You're a regular poster and I know this is good faith, but it's using niche situations to cover for regular, widespread atrocities
do you know where i could read more about this? tried googling the figure but couldn't find anything
This justification can be used for killing and eating your dog, the local squirrels, your next door neighbor, your grandma, and literally anything else that can be digested on the planet. The fact that you must eat something does not mean that it is morally justifiable to eat anything.
Am I a non-cannibal? Technically, yes, I eat only non-human stuff 99% of the time.
This is a governor. She's eating meat purely for fun, just like 99% of Westerners. She doesn't need it.
Did she eat the dog? Or did she just kill out of pure malice when it didnt conform to her desires? There is a difference between killing a dog that provides companionship and the evils of mass farming.
She ate the dog so it's cool
This comment is so confusing.
Would eating her dog make this less horrible?
If you're gonna be a puppy killing monster, the least you can do is make sure the meat doesn't go to waste.
I would say someone who murders and eats their victims is actually worse than someone who just murders them.
Oh it's friday night on hexbear again lmao
Probably worthwhile for most but there's something particularly fucked up to most people about killing pets, I'd hope at least. With livestock there's a whole historical context of homo sapien omnivorousness to explain it.
that kind of post is just pretending to not understand the cultural significance of pets. If there's actually a point behind it besides antagonizing people in a post about child abuse and violating social norms, I don't know what it is.
You're deliberately misreading their post
It says "why industrial animal torture industries do not" not that "industrial animal torture doesn't upset you just as much"
Either you think pets are higher tier beings than the equally smart and full of personality animals killed for food or you don't. It's not that hard
nah i think it's social categories, not moral ones. Cool i've deconstructed the categories of "pet animal" and "food animal" and think that if you want to keep a holstein as a pet or raise cats as livestock that's a little weird (historically, culturally, and logistically) but not some great sin just because the animals are flipped around.
people keep lizards and weird bugs as non-traditional pets too, maybe it's easier to see compared to mammals that the thing that's special about a pet is that it's a pet, not the species.
No, the thing that is special about all of them is that they're living creatures that can experience pain and have desires to live in their natural environments
Your example isn't doing any favors here. It's honestly more concerning that all that matters to you is the label you assign to a being that gives its life worth. You're explicitly acknowledging anything could be a pet that is meaningful to someone but some just get the shit end of the stick and are killed after a lifetime of torture instead
Now hold on.
I'm a vegan, but I can recognize murdering your own pet as being even worse than murdering any other animal. The problem isn't that the dog is a pet, but rather, her pet. She just murdered a member of her family for pissing her off. That's serial killer shit.
I had pet chickens before I was a vegan and if anyone killed them back then I'd fucking- well. They wouldn't kill anything ever again.
Why should I interrogate my own beliefs when I can completely ignore them and make a bad faith argument turning it into a personal attack on my fragile carnist ego?
Ask me why I think the systemic mass slaughter of sentient beings is ok? How fucking dare you? Have you considered culture you stupid vegan? Stop antagonizing me!
could you show me where i called someone stupid? there's plenty of real things to be mad about you don't have to make up more.
Ancient carnist strategy: distract from the actual issue, make it about yourself.
Another bad faith comment. I know you’re well aware of the bullshit you’re spewing but for all the toddlers out there learning how communication works, you don’t have to quote someone verbatim when caricaturing them.
I know the mass slaughter of sentient beings is a nothingburger to you but that doesn’t mean it is to everyone else :)
Indeed, it would be hard to make up something more depraved.
But now you’ve upset me, responding to you made me forget about the oven and now my broiled dog is ruined. Please don’t antagonize me with your western morality btw.
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it's tautological because that's all there is. There are historical reasons why some animals made better draft animals or whatever than others, but our pets are special to us because we adopt them. You could adopt a cow or a shark too, we just usually don't because of the logistics.
The carnist apologia in this thread is something else. The contortions people (sadly, including leftists) will go through just to try to assuage their cognitive dissonance and justify what they must know on some level is naked hypocrisy is truly is wild.
Hexbear carnists engage in self-crit challenge: impossible.