this post was submitted on 03 Jun 2025
595 points (100.0% liked)

aww

24261 readers
845 users here now

A place with minimal rules for stuff that makes you go awww! Feel free to post pics, gifs, or videos of cats, dogs, babies, or anything cute and remember to be kind to others.

AI posts must be labeled [AI] in the title and are limited to one per week.

While posting and commenting in this community, you must abide by instance-wide rules: https://mastodon.world/about

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Murdering someone isn’t cute. Even if you plan to eat them.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Good thing they're not someone but something

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

With the following animal characteristics: brain, heart, blood, vessels, sexual organs, muscles, cells, dopamine, water, illness, emotions.... does that mean that every human being is actually something and not someone? 🤔

What about babies? They do not have basic language and structural cognition, do not understand basic human emotions, cry out loud for just beeing alive... are they something? Or someone?

I guess it's just a shift of perspective before you actually come to conclusion that Animals are living beeings and sometimes way more "human" than some humanoid i have encountered in my life ^^.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

every human being is actually something and not someone

no, and this makes no sense

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Only some people are something - like Jews during WW2. We call living creatures including people "things", because then it feels more ok to kill them. It lowers the empathy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

they weren't things. treating them like things is part of what made that wrong.

and treating animals like people is also wrong.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

By treating animals like people, do you mean respecting them and not killing them or letting them work as senators?

IMO treating animals like things is definitely wrong, in the same way treating people like things is. Neither of them is a thing, all us animals are alive.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

you shouldn't treat animals like smartphones, either. you treat different things differently.

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

I think recognizing what is alive and what is not is a question of basic science education. I agree animals shouldn't be treated as smartphones.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

bacteria, fungus, plants, protozoa, and (arguably) viruses are all alive, too. bed bugs. rattlesnakes. being alive isn't actually that special, nor a reason, in itself, to refrain from eating or killing that thing.

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

I agree fully. If you were not allowed to eat other life, you would be left with licking salt. But that's not what I meant. What I meant was people use the "thing" label to make it easier to drop empathy - to do shitty things to both humans and other animals.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

People are so fucking weird

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

lol, name checks out for sure.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Boooooooo these cows are cute.

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

They aren't saying they aren't

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

Yeah but that attitude now makes them seem leas delicious and that’s not fair.

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

And they were shampoo and blow dry to apparently nakes the meat more tender. How they do Kobe beef if I am not mistaken.

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

I dunno, you throw enough glitter around and anything is cute