cubesmarching

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by cubesmarching 5y ago
When people choose not to be vaccinated, they endanger those who are unable to be vaccinated. Foregoing vaccination harms others. The normalized consumption of animal products endangers all people due to the impact it has on the environment
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by cubesmarching 5y ago
70 billion farm animals are the small minority, and 8 billion people are the majority? Is it ok to cause suffering to humans who are minorities because they are minorities?
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by cubesmarching 5y ago
To those downvoting: do you believe that dogs are able to mourn when their companions die? There are myriad examples of this occurring. If so, do you believe that dogs are the only animal capable of this?
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by cubesmarching 5y ago
Where, exactly, did I argue for the eradication of an entire population? Ending the exploitation of animals does not require eradicating them.
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by cubesmarching 5y ago
Murdering animals also brings significant distress to humans. Just not all humans.
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by cubesmarching 5y ago
Given that plants aren't conscious and do not feel pain, any line of reasoning that is predicated on the assumption that plants are conscious and feel pain is irrelevant.
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by cubesmarching 5y ago
The vast majority of animals raised to be killed and eaten are fowls, pigs, cattle, sheep, and goats. No, humans do not feel pain differently than these animals any more than they feel pain differently from cats or dogs.
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by cubesmarching 5y ago
The leading causes of death are diseases, cancers, dementia, road injuries, etc. These are inarguably more "horrifying" deaths than how we could kill people with methods such as those used for euthanasia, which is the point the or
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by cubesmarching 5y ago
Humans are animals. Humans do not feel pain differently from other animals. Humans do not suffer differently from other animals. This is why intentionally causing animals like cats and dogs to suffer is illegal and viewed as abhorrent. The
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by cubesmarching 5y ago
Plants are not conscious and do not feel pain. But even if your argument is in good faith and you genuinely believe that the plight of plants is equivalent to the suffering of animals, then that is still an argument for veganism, as produci
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by cubesmarching 5y ago
All humans eventually die, and most natural deaths are far more horrifying than how we would be able to murder other humans, especially in modern times (though even traditional slaughter is nothing compared to dying of cancer, stroke, being
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by cubesmarching 6y ago
I was naturalized about a decade ago and nothing of the sort happened for me either, or for the other two people I know who were naturalized around that time. The reason is that you are only required to renounce "allegiance" to ot