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Nah, you misunderstand, he’s in there as a victim

I’m still convinced it’s largely a result of existing institutions being spooked after having lost control of the narrative on social media about Israel’s settler-colonial genocide.

It’s just being a proper Londoner, innt?

I agree with you about reddit, but you’re really making the fedi sound a lot cooler than it actually is.

“I cast magic missile!”
“Oh yeah? Well, I cast mundane missile!”

How do you change the keyboard shortcuts in Krohnkite?

Username checks out

Ah, right, I get what you mean.

What? Does learning that xenophobes are racist in general come as a surprise to you??

The four-episode Dirk Gently miniseries.

Suggestion: die! 🥰

She sounds sweet, if perhaps a little bit psycho

Poor choice of example. Romeo and Juliet starts by telling the audience how it’s gonna end.

disengage

> ban kids from socialising online
> they start hanging out offline
> “no not like that”

there is no reason to suppose eating animals is bad

Sure there is: it causes suffering that can easily be avoided by not doing that.

Fine, we’ll put aside the accusation of solipsism for a moment and come back to this:

By the same token, there’s no way that you can prove to me that you understand personal mortality. If, for the sake of argument, I were to point a loaded firearm at you and you were to attack me, attempt to flee, beg for your life, whatever, there’s no way you could prove to me that your actions are motivated by a subjective will to not die: for all I know you might just be acting very convincingly like someone who understands mortality without actually having any interiority whatsoever.
However, there is social utility in assuming that others are capable of understanding abstract concepts when they perform actions in accordance with such an understanding. And from the fact that most animals will try to avoid things that they can reasonably understand will cause them death (natural predators, environmental hazards, anything that has caused them injury), we can likewise extrapolate that they don’t want to die.

You’ven’t made any meaningful rebuttal of anything I’ve said here. This is why it’s easy to assume you’re arguing in bad faith: I’ll clearly state my position and explain my reasoning, and then you’ll just come along and hit me with the “nuh-uh,” and refuse to elaborate. At my insistence that you justify your own position, you’ve so far given me “but different things are different,” and “but it’s normal tho.”
In the case of the former, I have explained why in the context of this discussion the different things are actually quite similar in the way that actually matters here. And given that you appear to hold sincerely leftist beliefs on every topic except animal liberation, I really hope I don’t have to explain to you how “but it’s normal tho,” has been used to defend countless atrocities, historical and present, and as such I shan’t accept it as a justification.

It’s almost as though you’re completely disregarding the context and the scope of my previous response because you’re arguing in bad faith.
Yes, I can accept that different things are different and this will sometimes mean that it’s okay to accordingly act differently, but sometimes different things have similarities and you’re here arguing for discriminatory treatment in the context where they’re actually not that different. Whales, lions, sheep and humans alike have a drive for self-preservation. Thus, they should similarly be allowed to live without being killed in cold blood by those who are capable of knowing better than to inflict needless suffering.
I have stated my reasoning again and again. It is on you to provide a justification for the discrepancy you’re here supporting.

> Puts a bullet in you
> bystanders freaking out
> not to worry, I have the perfect justification prepared > “Oh nonono it’s ok, they just don’t have any sort of consciousness. it’s not solipsism. it commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com behavioural study.” > nailedit.jpg