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[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Humans generally don't need to kill animals.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Neither do cows but I've seen one too many slurp a Snake like spaghetti and eat baby birds as if they were KitKats

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Just because an animal does it doesn't mean it's okay for humans to do it

[–] [email protected] 27 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Aren't we also "just" animals as well though?

(Not defending either side, I just really dislike it when statements suggest we aren't also literally animals that somehow figured out to think slightly more than others...)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Technically correct is the best correct. We are animals!

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

We are animals in a very literal sense, but justifying an immoral act because it's natural for animals to do it opens the door to justifying other immoral acts because animals do them. Humans are animals, but we're uniquely the only animals capable of choosing to act ethically.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

Don't kid yourself, Jimmy boi. If a cow ever got the chance, he'd eat you and everyone you care about!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

Just because an animal does it doesn't mean it's okay for humans to do it

Then comparing human teeth to animal teeth is irrelevant no? Because what the animals do is irrelevant.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Many animals reproduce via rape. If I need to explain further, then I can't help you

[–] LaoArchAngel 19 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That depends on which humans and where. There are still plenty of tribes that live in areas where vegetation simply does not support their population. Luckily, humans evolved to be feed on more things than most things on the planet. We can eat plants, fungi, bugs, fish, etc.

So you're right. Humans don't need to kill animals. We can survive by killing just about any living thing on this planet. We can even eat things that would otherwise be super toxic to us by learning how to cook it, peel it, or skin it.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Pufferfish

develops one of the most lethal toxins in the animal kingdom

Humans

Oooh yummy!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Peppers

Develops a chemical that makes them taste like pain for mammals to make it more likely that birds will eat their fruit and spread it farther

Humans

Oooh, spicy! Let's grow lots of these and breed some to maximize that spice!

Peppers

Wait no--oh nm, I guess it's a surprise win.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

It’s true. I usually eat animals that were killed for me. Thanks, grocery stores!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Soon we’ll be able to produce all the meat we want without any conscious creatures involved

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'll just wait until photosynthesis can support brain function.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You sick bastard. Oh well to each his own.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Well, I don't like meat anyway, so...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

I don't get what you're trying to guess.

But, kidney beans.