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No, the art does not depict bestiality, don't worry.

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[-] Catradora_Stalinism@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago

carnists, if this somehow gives you pause, consider that if it is morally permissible to kill and torture animals for enjoyment...

huh what the hell does this bullshit have to do with anything

so carnists also condone bestiality?

what the fuck

What fucking solar system are you living in

[-] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 29 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

so carnists also condone bestiality?

Functionally, yes. Do you know how the beef industry keeps getting more cows?

[-] Catradora_Stalinism@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

what the actual fuck is wrong with you

god yall are fucking gahhhh

WHAT THE FUCK

hexbear is great but this is a very bad moment from them

[-] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 29 points 1 year ago

Yes, how dare I point out the material realities that make your consumption choices possible

carnists also condone bestiality

yes, you do. Your diet requires humans to breed animals on factory farms: collecting semen from male animals and inseminating female animals. Those actions are mechanically the exact same thing as people committing the crime of bestiality. This is why most bestiality laws (and animal cruelty laws, for that matter) read something like "you can't fuck or mutilate animals, unless it's for a farming purpose".

Don't eat em, don't fuck em.

[-] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago

This is why most bestiality laws (and animal cruelty laws, for that matter) read something like "you can't fuck or mutilate animals, unless it's for a farming purpose".

Well OBVIOUSLY that doesn't count because flails arms wildly

[-] robot_dog_with_gun@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

i don't get sexual gratification from my food

[-] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago

Carnists stop misrepresenting our arguments challenge (rating: impossible)

[-] Sephitard9001@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago

Getting sexual gratification from an act is not the crime here lol. Is this protestant brainworms or something? If now on starting tomorrow via some magical means, all humans started orgasming after biting into a steak, would it then now suddenly be morally wrong to consume steak?

[-] robot_dog_with_gun@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

no it's the common usage of "bestiality." outside of vegan standard english i guess.

[-] GreenTeaRedFlag@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

I would argue there is a distinction between the two because bestiality is performing these actions for sexual gratification. Your overall point I do agree with, that the way we interact with animals in factory farms is sexual violence, but it is a different sort

[-] macerated_baby_presidents@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Sure and that's how the law categorizes it: your "purpose" when committing the act is what matters. I personally think the particular categorization of different purposes (so that economic reward is valid, gustatory sensual pleasure is valid, and sexual/sensual or sadistic pleasure is not) is arbitrary in a nakedly self-serving way. I have never seen any moral reasoning that one specific kind of sensory pleasure should justify sexual contact with animals but another should not; carnists usually fall back to arguments that eating animals is one way to satisfy a physical need. (Such arguments are of course inadequate to explain harm done simply to make food taste better, like restricting animal movement or gavage). In general we do give weight to purposes when people commit acts that they thought were good, or did not expect to result in negative consequences, so in theory intention is a valid thing to consider.

I personally reject the "we didn't explicitly want this subset of results, but we took this action knowing full well it was going to cause these results" liberal apologia that we see for military collateral damage and such.

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