Re: Eating Meat is Barbaric
Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2024 5:57 pm
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Does 'minority' or not have absolutely any bearing at all on the soundness and/or validity of things?LuckyR wrote: ↑Wed Jul 24, 2024 6:22 amA perfectly reasonable and internally logical minority opinion.Age wrote: ↑Wed Jul 24, 2024 2:06 am As with every so-called 'philosophical discussion' so to with 'morality discussions' finding out what is actually, irrefutably, True and Right is an absolutely Truly simple, easy, and quick process.
Eating meat when necessary for one's survival is perfectly all right, but eating meat when it is not necessary is not all right. Obviously, if one finds or comes across what is called a 'dead animal', which has not been purposely killed by the human animal, then this is all right as well. And, the term 'all right' here means and refers to 'that' what is right by all. Which is also simplified here by the term or word 'Right'.
Eating meat when necessary is what is Right, in Life. Doing so was obviously necessary for human beings survival for millions of years, hitherto when this is being written. Eating meat for and under this situation would obviously not be barbaric at all.
And,
Eating meat when it is not necessary is what is Wrong, in Life. Having to eat meat, in the days when this is being written, is needed only in the very, very rarest of occasions. Eating meat in all other situations could be classed as barbaric. (That is if one wants to use an 'emotional term' to, literally, 'stir up' the emotions in another.)
Now, obviously, any form of hunting, gathering, farming, breeding, and killing of animals for food, which is not necessary for survival, is not 'all right', and thus what is actually Wrong, in Life.
And, if absolutely any one disagrees with this, then let 'us' have an open and honest discussion, here.
Nice articles!Iwannaplato wrote: ↑Thu Jul 25, 2024 7:06 amActually we don't know if they feel pain or not. In Western science it was considered speculative at best and false often that animals felt pain. They were considered machinelike. Slowly over time it was realized/accepted that animals did suffer. There has been a bias towards considering that life forms unlike us do not share traits. This even included other ethnicities within homo sapiens.Eudaimonia23 wrote: ↑Tue Jul 23, 2024 9:56 pm Yes, plants are living organisms but they don't have a central nervous system. They don't experience pain when consumed.
Nowadays scientists are realizing that plants communicate, take defensive measure, have neurological like reactions with, yes, our type of nervous system, share resources with other trees for example, when they are in trouble, and exhibit signs of intelligence. This include the possbility that they experience pain,
https://www.livescience.com/plants-sque ... essed.html
https://www.ambius.com/resources/blog/l ... ntelligent
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science- ... 180968084/
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/202 ... rhiza.html
I think a case for veganism can be made in that it likely reduces animal suffering and death. But even vegans need to realize that their foods have been made in processes that include, necessarily, the deaths of animals. And if they use digital media devices, they are contributing to animal and human deaths, for example. IOW nearly all humans are deciding to continue living at the expense of the lives of both animals and other humans. They are implicitly placing the value of their life over that of others.Veganism is just about minimizing pain and suffering as much as possible.
Eating plants as opposed to animals is the ethical and compassionate way to go.
So, this one is 'now' implying that it has read every word that I have written in this forum here.
1. your use of the words 'actions' and 'inactions' means completely different things from how I use those words and what those words mean to me.Iwannaplato wrote: ↑Wed Jul 24, 2024 7:18 am I admitted the effects of my actions and inactions.
You can't manage to admit that your actions and inactions lead to the unnecessary deaths of children and animals.
Once again, more presumptions get made, while never once seeking out actual clarification. And, worse still this one's own made up personal presumptions are, once more, believed to be, absolutely, true.Iwannaplato wrote: ↑Wed Jul 24, 2024 7:18 am Nor can you manage to admit that you are valuing your life above theirs.
LOLIwannaplato wrote: ↑Wed Jul 24, 2024 7:18 am You imply that you only eat a necessary amount of meat.
Again, why are you saying, writing, and repeating what is and already was blatantly obvious to every one here?Iwannaplato wrote: ↑Wed Jul 24, 2024 7:18 am However there are many products including food products, that you consume or purchase, that leads to animal and child deaths.
What for?Iwannaplato wrote: ↑Wed Jul 24, 2024 7:18 am Instead of posting here as much as you do, for example, you could research things like where the cotton in your clothes comes from.
Why do you say and write this as though you actually do it?Iwannaplato wrote: ↑Wed Jul 24, 2024 7:18 am You could have not purchased digital media devices. You could only buy ecological food. And so on. If you take an honest look at what you do each day, there are ways you could have prioritized your life and research to minimize the amount of deaths your life contributes to.
Why call some thing what it is not?Iwannaplato wrote: ↑Wed Jul 24, 2024 7:18 am Further your continued existence leads to the death or more than one animal and one child. Thus you value your live, we'll call it Ken's body, over the lives of animals and children.
Once again, if you see or feel 'shame' or 'guilt', then that has absolutely nothing at all to do with what I have meant and intended.Iwannaplato wrote: ↑Wed Jul 24, 2024 7:18 am In dealings with other people you have generalized negatively (you know, about human beings, in the way you deny and gaslight that you do), but you yourself tacitly value your life, just as they do, over the lives and animals and children. So, what this entails is both arrogance and you putting yourself in the role of the shamer, the guilt in others creator.
Obviously, no one 'knows' the emotions that 'rise' in 'that body', that is; until you express those emotions through 'mis/behaviors' or through words. Like you have here for 'us' now.
Talk about you providing a prime example here of what was referred as 'mental gymnastics', back in the 'olden days' when this was being written.Iwannaplato wrote: ↑Wed Jul 24, 2024 7:18 am I am sure that your cleverness aimed at mental gymnastics, will manage to create for you a way to view this as if it doesn't apply to you, just as you will continue to apply it to other people, never noticing the hypocrisy.
And, as 'we' all already 'know', what you presume or believe I am saying and meaning here may well not even be true or even close to being true anyway.Iwannaplato wrote: ↑Wed Jul 24, 2024 7:18 am Just to let you know: this will not fool me not will it fool some percentage of the people who see such BS from you. It may fool some, and it will likely fool you.
LOL But not even one tiny itsy-bitsy bit of unease nor anger arose nor was felt. So, again, your assumption was completely and utterly Wrong, and Incorrect, from the beginning, and so the rest here was completely moot as well.Iwannaplato wrote: ↑Wed Jul 24, 2024 7:18 am Any unsease or anger you feel reading this is something you should investigate rather than 'coming up with' a clever response, one that allows you to feel smug and superior to me and/or others yet again.
The 'smugness', if any, would come from just how Wrong you continually are here, again because you assume before you clarify, and from knowing that I have suggested to you, too many times to bother counting, to not making any assumptions before you seek out and obtain actual clarification first.Iwannaplato wrote: ↑Wed Jul 24, 2024 7:18 am And notice that feeling of smugness also. You many not have realized what it was.
When and where have you, supposedly, told me this before, exactly?Iwannaplato wrote: ↑Wed Jul 24, 2024 7:42 amIncorrect. I have told you before, and clearly, that if you click on the arrow, in this case next to you name, this leads to the post in question.Age wrote: ↑Wed Jul 24, 2024 12:57 amLook at these last two posts here. These people do not quote a single word that I have said and written here, but then write 'this stuff'.Iwannaplato wrote: ↑Tue Jul 23, 2024 11:44 am Nor does this stuff. Couldn't manage to be honest about something so simple, could ya?
But, maybe your target audience won't see through your B.S.
Literally, absolutely nothing is provided, and then both say and claim, 'this stuff does not work'.
And, 'this stuff' is obviously Wrong and Incorrect here.Iwannaplato wrote: ↑Wed Jul 24, 2024 7:42 am In case you don't understand the phrase 'this stuff':
'this stuff' refers to your writing contained in the linked post. ''Stuff' can refer to any collection, group, grouping of items often in the same 'space' or space.
But yet 'it' actually 'affected' you enough to cause and make you respond and to write stuff down here.Iwannaplato wrote: ↑Wed Jul 24, 2024 7:42 am I am letting you know something about how your writing in that post does not affect me.
So, what 'I' am doing is, supposedly, not working 'on you'. Okay. But, then one could wonder if you even know what stuff I am actually doing. And, obviously, if you are not absolutely fully conscious of what 'I' am actually doing here, then you, obviously, would not know if what 'I' am doing is or is not affecting you, and thus 'you' would not actually know if 'I' have had an effect on 'you', or not.Iwannaplato wrote: ↑Wed Jul 24, 2024 7:42 am I don't know if you are conscious of the various things you are doing, but I am formally, if bluntly, letting you know what you are doing will not work on me.
So, 'I' have not had an effect on 'you', at all, here right?Iwannaplato wrote: ↑Wed Jul 24, 2024 7:42 am However it may work on your target audience or on others who are not necessarily your target audience.
And, if you believe that 'your sentence' here about others might say that 'I' am 'conveniently obtuse and not infrequently' is, or is the creation of, a useless sentence, then okay.Iwannaplato wrote: ↑Wed Jul 24, 2024 7:42 am And, to use you as a role model for the creation of useless sentences......
Some people might say that you are conveniently obtuse and not infrequently.
This 'knowing' of what is Wrong, and what is Right, in Life, is, as I keep reminding, 'deep down' within every body, instinctively known, but just unconsciously, and not yet consciously, by just about every one of you human beings, in the days when this is being written.Gary Childress wrote: ↑Wed Jul 24, 2024 12:18 pmI know it's wrong.Eudaimonia23 wrote: ↑Sat Jul 20, 2024 8:31 pm As rational beings, we have the ability to shape our world. If you are okay with animal cruelty and don't want to do your part to eliminate it, then you are partakers of darkness and savagery.
Most people know it's wrong, they just don't care -- they don't want to give up on the taste of savory meat.
I know meat tastes good, but animal lives matter more than my personal taste.
Sometimes, in order to create a better world, we have to make sacrifices.
If there is a God or gods, then I imagine they will judge us on how we responded to this situation.
But regardless of reward or punishment, we should do the right thing, the compassionate thing.
This exact same 'care', and 'caring', is also 'deep down' within every human being. you adult human beings, however, in the days when this is being written, have just 'learned' how to override 'this caring' by your very Wrong, and very Incorrect, 'teachings'.
Only because you have been brought up with Wrong, and Incorrect, 'teachings'.Gary Childress wrote: ↑Wed Jul 24, 2024 12:18 pm However, meat is more satisfying to me than vegetables
Are you absolutely sure that you do not like being 'miserable' "gary childress"?
There is not a living thing that has a 'self-destruct' program built within them. Unless, of course, they have a 'programming routine' to have created, or pro-created, some thing prior, first.Gary Childress wrote: ↑Wed Jul 24, 2024 12:18 pm It's either live as evil or not live out of kindness to other living beings and my programming routine won't allow me to self-destruct.
So, what do so-called "barbarians" actually do then, instead?Alexiev wrote: ↑Wed Jul 24, 2024 12:53 pmBarbarians do not participate in the "animal slaughterhouse industry".Eudaimonia23 wrote: ↑Tue Jul 23, 2024 1:10 pm
Any person who believes himself civilized should take no part in the savagery of the animal slaughterhouse industry.
To which 'civilization', supposedly?
you human beings 'promote' things by what you say and do. And, it could be said and argued, how 'a civilization' is is because of what you human beings say, and do do.
Would it be Wrong to suggest that absolutely every one is 'more careful' in expressing 'their prejudices'?
You are such a pretentious ass with such a poor memory.
I hate to tell you this Age, but you manage to be mistaken when you are quoted specifically. More importantly, as I have now indicated twice already, it was everything you said in that post that I was including in 'this stuff.'For the obvious reason that the reader could get 'mistaken'.
Hypocrite. When others assert things without qualification, you tell them their believe absolutely. When you assert without qualification, you don't even consider this the expression of a belief, let alone an absolute one. Further, you've indicated that you know everything or are on the way to and this is easy for you. So, what we have here is not only hypocrisy but also projection: you see others doing what you are doing and judge them negatively for supposedly being like, it turns out, you.Age wrote: ↑Sat Jul 27, 2024 1:23 am Look "iwannaplato" there is absolutely no use at all in keep repeating that you do not believe things to be true 'absolutely', while still presenting your own assumptions and beliefs as though they are, absolutely, true. The only one you are 'trying to' fool and deceive here is "your" own 'self', as some would say.
You missed it. The key word in my comment wasn't "minority", it was "opinion".Age wrote: ↑Fri Jul 26, 2024 11:48 pmDoes 'minority' or not have absolutely any bearing at all on the soundness and/or validity of things?LuckyR wrote: ↑Wed Jul 24, 2024 6:22 amA perfectly reasonable and internally logical minority opinion.Age wrote: ↑Wed Jul 24, 2024 2:06 am As with every so-called 'philosophical discussion' so to with 'morality discussions' finding out what is actually, irrefutably, True and Right is an absolutely Truly simple, easy, and quick process.
Eating meat when necessary for one's survival is perfectly all right, but eating meat when it is not necessary is not all right. Obviously, if one finds or comes across what is called a 'dead animal', which has not been purposely killed by the human animal, then this is all right as well. And, the term 'all right' here means and refers to 'that' what is right by all. Which is also simplified here by the term or word 'Right'.
Eating meat when necessary is what is Right, in Life. Doing so was obviously necessary for human beings survival for millions of years, hitherto when this is being written. Eating meat for and under this situation would obviously not be barbaric at all.
And,
Eating meat when it is not necessary is what is Wrong, in Life. Having to eat meat, in the days when this is being written, is needed only in the very, very rarest of occasions. Eating meat in all other situations could be classed as barbaric. (That is if one wants to use an 'emotional term' to, literally, 'stir up' the emotions in another.)
Now, obviously, any form of hunting, gathering, farming, breeding, and killing of animals for food, which is not necessary for survival, is not 'all right', and thus what is actually Wrong, in Life.
And, if absolutely any one disagrees with this, then let 'us' have an open and honest discussion, here.
If there is absolutely any thing in what I said and wrote here that you would like to discuss, for or against, then by all means let 'us'.
If 'you' say, and believe so.
But, 'your memory' is 'rich', right?
So, 'we' are, now again, back to what part, and/or what 'stuff', in this post are you even referring to, exactly?
Okay. If you say and believe so, then it must be so, right?Iwannaplato wrote: ↑Sat Jul 27, 2024 6:13 amI hate to tell you this Age, but you manage to be mistaken when you are quoted specifically.For the obvious reason that the reader could get 'mistaken'.
So, absolutely every thing I said and wrote in 'that post' was, again, some thing that you have alluded to, and/or still are just 'alluding' to, correct?Iwannaplato wrote: ↑Sat Jul 27, 2024 6:13 am More importantly, as I have now indicated twice already, it was everything you said in that post that I was including in 'this stuff.'
Yes, and this is because of the very words that they, and you, use. Which cannot be refuted, by the way.Iwannaplato wrote: ↑Sat Jul 27, 2024 6:57 amHypocrite. When others assert things without qualification, you tell them their believe absolutely.Age wrote: ↑Sat Jul 27, 2024 1:23 am Look "iwannaplato" there is absolutely no use at all in keep repeating that you do not believe things to be true 'absolutely', while still presenting your own assumptions and beliefs as though they are, absolutely, true. The only one you are 'trying to' fool and deceive here is "your" own 'self', as some would say.
Obviously, if I am expressing some thing and I am not believing it, then this is not the expression of a belief, let alone could even be an expression of a so-called 'absolute belief'.Iwannaplato wrote: ↑Sat Jul 27, 2024 6:57 am When you assert without qualification, you don't even consider this the expression of a belief, let alone an absolute one.
LOL I have never ever 'indicated' this at all. That is; from the perspective of things that you have and are holding here. And, if I recall correctly, I have already informed you of this. But, you might have forgotten, missed, or misunderstood this, as well.Iwannaplato wrote: ↑Sat Jul 27, 2024 6:57 am Further, you've indicated that you know everything or are on the way to and this is easy for you.
And, once again, you have missed and/or misinterpreted things, which have led you to presume or belief further misinterpreted things, which then means what has followed has just been moot, once again.Iwannaplato wrote: ↑Sat Jul 27, 2024 6:57 am So, what we have here is not only hypocrisy but also projection:
But, how can I be, supposedly, doing what 'you' human beings do here, when it is 'you' who believe things, while 'I' do not?Iwannaplato wrote: ↑Sat Jul 27, 2024 6:57 am you see others doing what you are doing and judge them negatively for supposedly being like, it turns out, you.
But I did not miss what you call and claim here is the 'key word'.LuckyR wrote: ↑Sat Jul 27, 2024 6:58 amYou missed it. The key word in my comment wasn't "minority", it was "opinion".
If you actually looked at the linked post and can't figure that out, there's no point in me trying to help you more with your request/question.Age wrote: ↑Sat Jul 27, 2024 8:57 amIf 'you' say, and believe so.But, 'your memory' is 'rich', right?So, 'we' are, now again, back to what part, and/or what 'stuff', in this post are you even referring to, exactly?