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Meet the AI vegans. They are refusing to use artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] 18 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Not eating animals is not a wacky contrarian position either, and I'm not even vegan

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    So I'm gonna play devil's advocate here and say that it is. Look at your teeth, humans are omnivores. Cutting out half the diet you evolved to consume is in fact a contriarian position. Not that I have any issues with vegans or vegetarians, just from an anatomical point of view we were designed to eat some meat! I do think calling people who don't use AI "AI vegans" is absurd though, as diet has absolutely nothing to do with use of AI. Would be more accurate to say their AI fasting if we're gonna use food related terms.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    It's natural to eat animal products, but many humans try to live by ethical standards, not just instincts and traditions. Just because the stronger caveman used to be able to just bash their neighbor's head in and take their belongings, doesn't make it acceptable by today's standards. So while I do agree with your initial assessment, considering that we have the option nowadays to have a healthy diet based on non animal products, I would also agree with the previous comment saying that it is not wacky contrarian to eat / live vegan.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    It is wacky/contrarian as we are still eating meat normally. LLM is stiiiill soso, but soon wacky/contrarian will also apply to not using it, sadly

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    People, eat shit. Billions of flies can't be wrong...

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Kiiiinda confused. Am I fly? Nah, I am a human. And most of us eat mixed diet. That's normal. Baseline. So, eating only veggies is wacky. Same with eating only meat.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    By definition contrarian is somebody who opposes or rejects popular opinion. So yes by definition being vegan is contrarian lmfao. Not saying I have any issues with it there's nothing wrong with being vegan I'm just saying it is by definition contrarian to be vegan. And nothing wrong with being contrarian either! Judging by the votes on my original comment, it appears that me stating veganism is contrarian was in fact a contrarian opinion lmfao. I regularly have vegetarian and vegan meals, and I love my meat. Hopefully people didn't get the wrong idea about my opinions on veganism as there are no negative ones from me ...

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    As I said, Iagreed with your initial comment, but also the previous one. And I don't think the word contrarian is very well applicable to this situation, because it is not about opinions as much as it is about personal preferences. I wouldn't call it contrarian that I like brussel sprouts when many people do not...

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    It may be natural to eat animals, but in modern society it is definitely not necessary. I eat some meat, but I respect those who don't.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    This^ our global market has made veganism a very healthy option considering we can get foods grown in other environments that are protein rich and such. I think if you were limited to only what's local, being a healthy vegan would be a lot harder but having access to all manner of foods these days makes it easy

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