• Genius@lemmy.zip
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    3 days ago

    So you’re saying if I paid an assassin a million dollars to take your life, I wouldn’t have any blame for your murder, because the assassin has free will?

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      2 days ago

      that’s not what happens in the meat industry. the animal is already dead, and everyone involved is already paid long before I walk into a grocery store. it’s not a conspiracy.

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        Do you think if everyone in the world stopped buying meat, that the slaughterhouses would keep killing cows? I’m going to assume you don’t think that, and I’m going to assume you believe the slaughterhouses kill cows because people buy them.

        So let me know if you DON’T think that your and others’ purchasing of meat causes animal agriculture. Because I think you agree that your actions and others’ actions cause it.

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          animal agriculture existed before anyone ever bought meat. purchasing meat didn’t cause animal agriculture.

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                It’s too late to prevent murder from existing, so if I pay that assassin a million dollars to murder you, I don’t see how that changes the state of the world meaningfully

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                  2 days ago

                  you are engaging in an immoral conspiracy. no such conspiracy exists between me and slaughterhouses. your analogy is broken, and you should stop trying to make it work.

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                    2 days ago

                    Well I thought murder was wrong because dying hurts, not because it’s a secret.

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          you believe the slaughterhouses kill cows because people buy them.

          no. slaughterhouses kill cows because they are paid by the cattle owners to do so.

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          Do you think if everyone in the world stopped buying meat, that the slaughterhouses would keep killing cows?

          no, do you have a plan to make that happen?