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The Batlord · 01-14-2023, 10:50 PM

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Originally Posted by jwb

@ batlord
...I mean you don't have to take it to the extreme of eco terrorism. You could just not eat meat. If you don't even give a **** enough to do that then you basically just don't give much of a **** at all.

I never went hunting but i did shoot a black bird in the alley behind our apt building when I was 14. He was sitting on the power line and I shot him with a bb gun pistol right through the head from about 50 ft away. Never in my life have I had that kinda luck. God wanted that bird dead.

I mean I think people don't treat distinctions between human and animal life the same not because they don't care on a moral level but because they are acculturated to not valuing animal life the same. There's no actual moral argument for it other than just cultural norms.

~~jwb~~ · 01-14-2023, 11:05 PM

I don't understand that statement at all tbh. Maybe try rephrasing it cause the way you worded it I am not at all sure what you're saying.

I don't think animal life and human life are equal.

Chula Vista · 01-15-2023, 05:23 AM

The discussion isn't about simply hunting.

Hunting and killing animals out of necessity is fine.

This? Not cool.

Trollheart · 01-15-2023, 05:27 AM

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Originally Posted by SGR

I'm not giving up burgers and steak, **** that.

I've never hunted myself and probably never will. I like fishing though. I almost always release the fish though after getting a picture.

Do you think you'd have the skill to catch yourself if you did? Would you have to set traps for yourself? Lure yourself out of the bush? How would you mount your - never mind.

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Originally Posted by jwb

@ batlord
...I mean you don't have to take it to the extreme of eco terrorism. You could just not eat meat. If you don't even give a **** enough to do that then you basically just don't give much of a **** at all.

I never went hunting but i did shoot a black bird in the alley behind our apt building when I was 14. He was sitting on the power line and I shot him with a bb gun pistol right through the head from about 50 ft away. Never in my life have I had that kinda luck. God wanted that bird dead.

I believe you mean an African-American woman...

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Originally Posted by Chula Vista

The discussion isn't about simply hunting.

Hunting and killing animals out of necessity is fine.

This? Not cool.

No. Not cool inviting a damn giraffe to join your hunting party. That takes some neck. They're just going to get in the way and first sign of trouble they'll be off. Bastards. Look at it: it's half asleep.

jadis · 01-15-2023, 05:54 AM

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Originally Posted by jwb

No. I read the brothers Karamazov and The Idiot when I was in the program. I enjoyed them both a lot but that's all I've read by him. I tried reading crime and punishment years prior but I got bored and didn't make it very far in. I remember looking at notes from the Underground when I was looking for books to order in the program and I picked The Idiot instead.

You'll love it. And unlike the Brothers or C&P it's something you can read on your phone

The Batlord · 01-15-2023, 07:09 AM

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Originally Posted by jwb

I don't understand that statement at all tbh. Maybe try rephrasing it cause the way you worded it I am not at all sure what you're saying.

I don't think animal life and human life are equal.

Our attitudes about the sanctity of life are shaped by culture. In a meat eating society our values are shaped to value animal life less. I'm sure there's an instinct to value human life more but the culture reinforces that even for the most fervent vegan.

Chula Vista · 01-15-2023, 07:17 AM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

In a meat eating society our values are shaped to value animal life less.

Completely disagree.

What is a meat eating society? Pretty much every society on the planet relies on animal protein in one for or another.

The Batlord · 01-15-2023, 07:41 AM

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Originally Posted by Chula Vista

Completely disagree.

What is a meat eating society? Pretty much every society on the planet relies on animal protein in one for or another.

A society predominantly of meat eaters? You don't think being raised from birth in a society full of burger eaters has shaped your attitudes on eating meat and the value of animal life?

Chula Vista · 01-15-2023, 07:48 AM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

A society predominantly of meat eaters? You don't think being raised from birth in a society full of burger eaters has shaped your attitudes on eating meat and the value of animal life?

Well, growing up around burgers definitely shaped my attitude about liking burgers. I can grock the need for hunting to feed a family and large scale livestock farming for mass consumption but that doesn't make me less of a big softy when it comes to animals.

The Batlord · 01-15-2023, 07:58 AM

But "big softy" includes being okay with animals dying for food when you could just have a salad, yes? And unless you're a sociopath that's probably because that's normalized to you.

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01-15-2023, 05:23 AM	#24793 (permalink)
Chula Vista Toasted Poster Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: SoCal by way of Boston Posts: 11,332	The discussion isn't about simply hunting. Hunting and killing animals out of necessity is fine. This? Not cool. __________________ “The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

01-14-2023, 11:05 PM	#24792 (permalink)
~~jwb~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Jul 2019 Posts: 4,403	I don't understand that statement at all tbh. Maybe try rephrasing it cause the way you worded it I am not at all sure what you're saying. I don't think animal life and human life are equal.