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"Hey son, here's a firearm, let's go kill something, systematically eviscerate and skin it, and then consume its flesh while taking joy and pride in each step of the process. Oh, don't ever do this to humans or dogs." I dunno, seems pretty weird to me.

[-] BraveSirZaphod@kbin.social 52 points 1 year ago

You're loosely describing most of human history.

"Let's take these plant babies and grind them into a pulp, drown it, let it be eaten by a bunch of tiny monsters until they fart enough gas, and then burn it" also sounds kinda weird. Welcome to the universe; shit's a little whack.

Anything sounds weird if you abstract it enough.

[-] GONADS125@feddit.de 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You're loosely describing most of human history.

To play devils advocate, you're arguing an appeal to tradition, which is a logical fallacy.

Just because we've historically operated in a certain way, it does not mean it is morally permissible behavior.

The appeal to tradition has been used to argue in favor of slavery, racism, and a lot of other horrendous human behavior.

[-] rambaroo@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

So? It's patently obvious that millions of people go hunting every year without turning into mass murderers. Pointing out logical fallacies isn't an argument.

[-] GONADS125@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's patently obvious that millions of people go hunting every year without turning into mass murderers.

I never said they do.

Pointing out logical fallacies isn't an argument.

I wasn't staking any claims in this argument. Just pointing out how yours is invalid.

I did so because it's constructive criticism to promote better reasoning. But of course you're too immature to receive constructive criticism, so you defensively deflect it instead.

Edit: oh wait you're not even the user I was speaking to..

[-] aesthelete@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah Nathan Pyle has made a whole living out of doing this with Strange Planet.

[-] agitatedpotato@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Oh boy, wait until you hear about this type of animal called omnivores. They can survive off vegtable but they still hunt and eat meat because obviously they're evil strange and un-natural.

Exactly. They don't have to kill, but they do so for pleasure. But miss me with that argument from nature bs.

[-] agitatedpotato@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

You're calling something that happens in nature all the time un natural then asking that I don't bring up nature. Okay buddy, want me to not bring up everything that makes tour argument ridiculous too? Or just the ones you don't have a canned response for?

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