• EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com
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    2 days ago

    “Plants feel pain” is an argument that supports a plant-based diet because it is more efficient to consume plants directly than to feed them to animals.

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      24 hours ago

      i agree with the efficiency.

      stick with that argument.

      it works for you.

      stepping into moral logic around consiousness around pain and suffering: that the shittier arguments vegans come up with to feel satisified with themselves over others with magical thinking and that shit needs to stop.

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        23 hours ago

        Vegans’ moral arguments are just fine, it’s just that most people don’t give a shit. When you realize how shitty most people are to other people, it makes the need to take a different approach very obvious.

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          22 hours ago

          Everyone requires a certain amount of mental gymnastics to consume any living plant or creature to continue to exist in a meat body.

          You can pick and choose food but you don’t get to pick and choose who has consciousness.

          Denying that is shittier.

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            20 hours ago

            If you are asserting that plants have consciousness, then this supports eating a plant-based diet due to how trophic levels work.

            I’m glad that we are on the same page with this.

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              18 hours ago

              Never said we weren’t.

              as far as efficiency and better for environment we have been on the same page since the beginning.

              The only problem I spoke up against here is the conscious guilt trip should be considered a non starter.