ThePenitentOne

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

People get mad when they have a problem and you provide a solution they can feasibly take part in. As soon as they have any agency/capability to take responsibility suddenly they are unable to.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

You act like it's mutually exclusive, when it just isn't. And guess what? Not eating meat and consuming less animal produce is significantly easier than fighting injustice that happens in foreign countries.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

As soon as you suggest people stop eating meat, suddenly they have no moral standing or their change won't make a difference. It's just sad. People will hide behind 'personal choice' as if it absolves them of supporting the industry and any wrong doing that comes as a consequence of it. You can't justify breeding an animal into existence for the sole purpose of killing and eating it when it is entirely unnecessary to do so. It's probably the biggest example of injustice in the modern world, next to slavery.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Bringing an animal into the world with the intent of later killing it when it is entirely unnecessary to do so seems a bit wrong no?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

People don't want to learn or debate anything. They form an opinion and from that point on stop giving a shit. It's no surprise things end up like this.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

All you need to know is most people don't give a shit about anything not directly threatening their way of life in immediate terms. Once you understand how pathetic people are, it becomes all the more obvious why things are allowed to be this way and not change. A lot of people don't even care to put in the effort to learn or expand their knowledge of things at all.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Try to tell people to stop eating meat and reduce their consumption of dietary animal products because of the moral/environmental disaster that it is, and suddenly it's too hard to have empathy.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Once you realise most people don't give a shit about anything that doesn't directly affect or implicate them, you realise why things remain how they are.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

They are self-aware, willing to change and learn, and have a rational, logical view of things. It's rare to meet people like that, but they are by far the best people. Someone's philosophy on life is probably the best descriptor of a person.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Problem is, a lot of people don't have a lot of money because of how the world has been allowed to go. Everything is funnelled towards the worst people who go unpunished somehow. There needs to be an uprising or something.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

'You are younger than me and therefore know nothing.' Can't argue with that there.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (10 children)

What is the metric for fairness here? And what version of 'capitalism' are we talking about?

 

One of the most aggravating things to me in this world has to be the absolutely rampant anti-intellectualism that dominates so many conversations and debates, and its influence just seems to be expanding. Do you think there will ever actually be a time when this ends? I'd hope so once people become more educated and cultural changes eventually happen, but as of now it honestly infuriates me like few things ever have.

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