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Old 01-14-2023, 10:38 PM   #24801 (permalink)
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who gives a ****? If you eat meat then you aren't any better. People just live in the convenient comfort of being 2 or 3 steps removed from the brutality their lifestyles are dependant on.

I relate to the idea of hunting even though I've never done it. It seems like there is something primal about stalking and hunting prey that is so far removed from the kind of existence I've known that I look at it with this weird sort of nostalgia for something I never even experienced.
What's that old saying? We're only three missed meals away from anarchy or something?
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Old 01-14-2023, 11:13 PM   #24802 (permalink)
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who gives a ****? If you eat meat then you aren't any better. People just live in the convenient comfort of being 2 or 3 steps removed from the brutality their lifestyles are dependant on.

I relate to the idea of hunting even though I've never done it. It seems like there is something primal about stalking and hunting prey that is so far removed from the kind of existence I've known that I look at it with this weird sort of nostalgia for something I never even experienced.
Yeah same. I will never go hunting cause I don't want to kill a deer or a rabbit, I want to be friends with them, but the moral logic of being against hunting should also require terrorism against the meat industry so my stance is like a moral standoff where nobody gets to have high ground.

There can still be morally stupid justifications for hunting, but the environmental catastrophe of the destruction of predator animals makes it super easy to justify your love of hunting by just saying yes I like hunting but culling populations of non-predator animals by human hunters is a necessity and if you're not self-aware enough to even say that then yeah you're open to accusations of being a ****head.
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Old 01-14-2023, 11:28 PM   #24803 (permalink)
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but the moral logic of being against hunting should also require terrorism against the meat industry so my stance is like a moral standoff where nobody gets to have high ground.
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.
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Old 01-14-2023, 11:35 PM   #24804 (permalink)
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...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.
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...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.
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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.
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The discussion isn't about simply hunting.

Hunting and killing animals out of necessity is fine.

This? Not cool.

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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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...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.
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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.
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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
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Old 01-15-2023, 08:09 AM   #24810 (permalink)
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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.
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