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Twitter's new TikTok copycat is filled with animal cruelty videos. Elon calls content "Edgy" (www.nbcnews.com)
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[–] 8 points 3 years ago (8 children)

Folks, there is important, valid discussion to be had about meat eating both from ethical an environmental perspectives. I'm not sure that !Technology is the place to have that discussion, however.

More importantly, this thread was not the way to discuss these issues, particularly on Beehaw. The behavior in this thread was not nice, and is not the way that these types (or any type) of discussion should be conducted.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    I just made a comment about animal cruelty on social media, in a thread about animal cruelty on social media.

    Sadly speaking up for the animals provokes angry responses in many people.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    I'm not saying that you are solely at fault for the thread getting out of hand, but I hope we can agree that when things devolve to the point that we're talking about murdering other users and eating their corpses that the discussion has probably gotten out of hand.

    I think there are ways of discussing even controversial topics without the conversation spinning out of control, but I know that this topic in particular touches a nerve with a lot of folks. Just please try to be mindful of whether you're escalating or deescalating the argument in the future.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (3 children)

    It's of course hypothetical, and I think, totally within reason, it's a thread about animal abuse.
    It's one of the problems we run into when speaking up against animal abuse, people call us extreme when we are really just being up front about what happens in reality.

    I try to keep it civil and respond matter of fact and explain but it can be hard when you get so much toxicity thrown back at you, all because you stand up against animal cruelty.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    It’s of course hypothetical, and I think, totally within reason, it’s a thread about animal abuse.

    Hypothetical or not, I'm telling you that it's not acceptable for this instance.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    I understand you want to keep it civil here and think it's a great goal but what you're saying would keep us from discussing serious subjects.

    When there's context which explains why something that sounds extreme is brought up you should look at the context, not just react to what you think is extreme.

    I don't think disallowing thought experiments/hypotheticals is positive.

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