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[–] joaomarrom@hexbear.net 47 points 5 days ago (4 children)

The act of measuring human and animal lives by their relative worth is in and of itself meaningless reactionary bullshit, just pure discourse without any sort of bearing on real life. It proves nothing except for the fact that the person who's even making that argument is trying to signal this insufferable sense of superiority that's just pathetic really.

Nowadays, whenever someone says something along the lines of "I would kill a thousand dogs to save a single human", I just go ahead and ask them if they would suck off a thousand dogs to save a single human. There's really no better response, because there are no other responses that are worth spending your time thinking about. A ridiculous premise gets a ridiculous answer and that's it.

[–] kojiqurac@hexbear.net 6 points 4 days ago (2 children)

i tell them i would kill a thousand humans and just stare at them while they wait for me to finish the sentence that never comes

[–] joaomarrom@hexbear.net 4 points 4 days ago

Alternatively you can also tell them that you would kill them a thousand times for using that stupid hypothetical

[–] mendiCAN@hexbear.net 4 points 4 days ago

🎶this is something you can't understand¹⁰⁰⁰🎶

[–] swelter_spark@reddthat.com 8 points 5 days ago

This is amazing.

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[–] CommunistCuddlefish@hexbear.net 39 points 5 days ago

cute cow

vs.

george w bush

A blanket statement like that is very easily disproven.

[–] LeninsBeard@hexbear.net 39 points 5 days ago

"The value of a human life is worth more than the lives of thousands of animals" MFs when you ask them how many human lives are destroyed by the factory farming industry morshupls

[–] moss_icon@hexbear.net 34 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Slaughterhouse workers have a disproportionately high rate of PTSD but vegoon bad.

[–] Inui@hexbear.net 20 points 5 days ago

Also where a lot of the child labor and work accidents/injuries happen

[–] mathemachristian@hexbear.net 32 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

Oh are we valuing life? Are we doing thought experiments of who gets to who lives and who doesn't? What a normal thing to do, lets go:

  • 1000 kittens or hitler?
  • 500 kittens or 500 hitlers?
  • 100 kittens or 900 hitlers?
  • 1 kitten or 1000 hitlers?

.

.

  • your family pet or your child?

  • your family pet or your family home?

  • your family pet or your childs college?

  • your family pet or your family vacation?

  • your family pet or one days worth of food?

  • your family pet or your gaming pc?

  • 100000000000 cows or one kitten?

and so on...

the answer of course is that it's all pure idealism and the framing is set up in a way that inevitably leads to white supremacist views

[–] Blakey@hexbear.net 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I mean mostly of course this is a nonsense discourse but I would choose the one kitten over the thousand Hitlers and it's not even close

[–] kojiqurac@hexbear.net 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

i would choose a million mosquitoes in my bedroom over a below averagely annoying human

[–] Blakey@hexbear.net 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Uh. I am saying that literally Adolf fucking Hitler shouldn't be defended regardless of how you feel about kittens. Not sure what you are saying but I do not in fact think that a million mosquitos - neither in my bedroom nor anywhere else - are more important than any random person, unless that person is a Hitler level prick. Maybe I have misunderstood your comment but I really am not sure what's up here.

[–] TherapyGary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Sorry, genuinely asking- how does the framing inevitably lead to white supremacist views?

I personally enjoy these sorts of thought experiments / hypotheticals to explore my values. Of course, I don't use them in debates or as some sort of "gotcha"

It's also strange, to me, seeing idealism shat on here

I feel like I must be missing something and fundamentally misunderstanding your point

[–] Kefla@hexbear.net 13 points 5 days ago (1 children)

"One being is inherently worth more than another and that therefore means that it's okay to kill the inferior" seems like it can't lead to any end point except some kind of racial supremacy as far as I'm concerned. There are two obvious flaws that lead there

  1. The idea that lives can/should be compared as more or less deserving based on traits of birth rather than choices made

  2. The idea that the more deserving have some authority to murder the less deserving for some unexplained reason

[–] TherapyGary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

??? It doesn't inherently mean it's okay to kill the other. And what does race have to do with it?

If someone asked me whether I'd rather save a person of color or a white person- I have no rational preference, so I'd pass. Boring question.

This is about different species though. E.g., the parent comment posed a bunch of cows vs a kitten. If I could save a bunch of cows by killing a kitten, I'd do it. Now you and I have just learned something about my values, and I think that's neat.

Then we really get into moral dilemmas with human vs non-human. I know the trolley problem is controversial, but it's a genuinely great way to explore values. If I had to choose between killing 1 cow or 1 person, I'd choose the cow. But what about several cows? If a genie popped up and told me I could magically make the whole world vegan, but one random human would die a sudden tragic death, I'd make that deal. Where's my line though? There must be a specific number at which I switch from sparing the human to sacrificing the human. These questions are about discovering those boundaries for yourself, and I don't think that's bad

[–] Kefla@hexbear.net 12 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It doesn't inherently mean it's okay to kill the other.

But that's literally the view that it is being used to support.

And what does race have to do with it?

You don't see how "I've decided based on traits inherent to their birth that this being doesn't deserve to live" could trigger alarms relating to racism?

[–] TherapyGary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

But that's literally the view that it is being used to support.

No it's not

You don't see how "I've decided based on traits inherent to their birth that this being doesn't deserve to live" could trigger alarms relating to racism?

I realize that speciesism is similar to racism. I made a whole zine about that in college. But you can't just entirely conflate them- that feels even more racist

[–] Kefla@hexbear.net 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

No it's not

Sorry, I think you're deep enough in Debate Land that you've lost sight of what we're actually talking about. Take a step back and just look at the original post, and then at the top level comment which this conversation is replying to, and try again.

Or in short, yuh-huh.

[–] TherapyGary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I've been doing that each time I reply and I'm still baffled. I wasn't being rhetorical when I said I think there's a fundamental misunderstanding, but I'm beginning to question whether that misunderstanding is actually not on my part as I had original suspected

[–] Kefla@hexbear.net 12 points 5 days ago

I guess we just exist in completely separate realities then. In the universe I'm from, the original post is about vegan discussion being banned from a subreddit and the mods of that subreddit justifying killing non-human animals by saying that their lives are worth less than human lives. The top level comment we're replying to in my universe is a direct criticism of this logic.

Perhaps in your universe the original post is about how the moon is made of cheese and the top level comment is a detailed review of Morbius.

[–] hello_hello@hexbear.net 11 points 5 days ago (1 children)

If someone asked me whether I'd rather save a person of color or a white person- I have no rational preference, so I'd pass. Boring question.

New tagline, also I hope you get banned soon.

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[–] SmithrunHills@hexbear.net 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

None of the people you responded to even so much as scratched you, yet somehow it took you little to no prompting to start emitting hitlerite particles as early as your second sentence. Incredible

[–] TherapyGary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 days ago

I feel like I'm going crazy here. Please share what I said that comes across as hitlerite and, if you wouldn't mind, explain why?

I realize this will probably come across like sealioning but I'm genuinely so confused. I'm a vegan, an anarchist, and a social worker therapist. I'm being sincere here

[–] Kefla@hexbear.net 21 points 5 days ago

Even if you take an impossibly extreme view, like each human is worth 10 trillion cows, going vegan is still a moral imperative. I swear to fuck if any of you liberals agree with this reddit garbage I will pants you in public and everyone will laugh

[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 22 points 5 days ago

”Unproductive discussions”

”Advertisement for veganism”

clown-to-clown-communicationclown-to-clown-conversation

That place is trash, but at least it makes me glad Hexbear doesn't allow antiveganism.

[–] Krem@hexbear.net 16 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I agree with this decision. It's far too easy for troll farms to sow division in leftist spaces using these social justice stances.

lol

[–] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 10 points 5 days ago (2 children)

who even are these dipshits

[–] LeninWeave@hexbear.net 13 points 5 days ago
[–] Red_October@hexbear.net 6 points 5 days ago

Fuck these guys they sound like Trots.

[–] BigWeed@hexbear.net 16 points 5 days ago (1 children)

My lifetime earnings is worth less than 1000 trees. I think about that a lot.

[–] insurgentrat@hexbear.net 5 points 5 days ago

Only because your life is priceless BigWeed

[–] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 18 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

This would only make sense if there was like a literal gun to a person's head and a dog's head or something. Which is a ridiculous scenario that would never happen. You can be against battery farming without putting human lives at risk (in fact you'd actually save a lot of lives since battery farmed animals are responsible for antibiotic resistance and a massive vector for disease).

"I think human life is more important than the life of a non-human animal" sure, you can hold that opinion without resorting the ridiculous hyperbole. At least present a reasonable argument for that point.

Basically zizek-theory

[–] RION@hexbear.net 14 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Which is a ridiculous scenario that would never happen.

The devious Jigsaw mari-smug

"Buy this magazine or we shoot this dog" but as policy

[–] woodenghost@hexbear.net 10 points 5 days ago

Exactly, the scenario has nothing to do with veganism, it's just a strawman

[–] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 17 points 5 days ago
[–] FnordPrefect@hexbear.net 18 points 5 days ago

stalin-stressed GAHH! Even if you agree with the premise, are a 100% anthropocentric asshole, and assign no value to animal life: you should still be vegan!

[–] ajab@hexbear.net 14 points 5 days ago

One life worth thousands of animals? So what will they say when billions of non-human land animals are killed over the course of a year? If they were serious (which they're deeply not,) this would be tragedy to them even if the life of each non-human animal were worth ten thousand less.

[–] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 12 points 5 days ago
[–] CommunistBear@hexbear.net 14 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Is r/leftist one of the subs that got taken over by ACP goons? It would make some sense

[–] CommunistCuddlefish@hexbear.net 10 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

I don't think so. /r/leftist has the problem of being on reddit-logo where a bunch of radlibs who think they're leftists lurk

[–] insurgentrat@hexbear.net 8 points 5 days ago

Yes I'm a leftist, I think people who don't get paid a lot should be left behind.

[–] WideningGyro@hexbear.net 10 points 5 days ago

Isn't that r/asksocialists or something? I dunno, the only non-hobby or DIY sub I fuck with is r/TrueAnon

[–] hamid@crazypeople.online 6 points 4 days ago

Damn you beat me to posting this!

[–] Wheaties@hexbear.net 11 points 5 days ago (1 children)

You cannot truly separate organism from ecology! This isn't a math equation! Even if we're going to be lazy and ignore the moral questions here, thousands of suffering animals will unavoidably, inevitably have impact on the quality of human lives. The sheer volume of ammonia, methane, and shit all concentrated in a single factory farm. All that byproduct has to go somewhere! It's effect is felt for miles, distorting and altering everything; the soil content, the plants, the insects, the contents of the water table, the very breathability of the air! And that's just the obvious stuff. Lazy! Lazy lazy thinking!

[–] Wheaties@hexbear.net 9 points 5 days ago

The discussion rooted in evangelism is unproductive. You are welcome to have these unproductive discussions on r/vegan.

mothefucker, PRODUCTIVE DISCUSSION DOESN'T HAPPEN ONLINE

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