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[-] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 81 points 5 months ago

Humans don't have to kill things with their teeth. Sharks do.

[-] Dkarma@lemmy.world 34 points 5 months ago

Yeah one thing you notice about the ocean is the teeth are designed so if you catch something it can't get away. Look at anglerfish and baleen. White sharks have hundreds of teeth. Most omnivorous land mammals have teeth just like ours.

This is just a bad comparison, but it is funny.

[-] TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 months ago

The joke is making fun of people who call us carnivores, though. Our teeth are very different from land carnivores, as well.

[-] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 9 points 5 months ago

Again, humans don't kill with their teeth like land carnivores do.

[-] TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I understand that, but my point was that we aren't carnivores at all, we are omnivores.

I am not vegan FWIW, I was just responding to the person who was saying that comparing us to sea carnivores was a bad comparison, when comparing us to land carnivores yields the same results. It seemed kind of like they missed the point of the joke which was to make fun of people who wrongly call us carnivores, especially as a response to veganism.

It was all kind of useless pedantry on my part, anyways, so I apologize.

[-] MilitantVegan@lemmy.world 17 points 5 months ago

Humans generally don't need to kill animals.

[-] Shardikprime@lemmy.world 39 points 5 months ago

Neither do cows but I've seen one too many slurp a Snake like spaghetti and eat baby birds as if they were KitKats

[-] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 10 points 5 months ago

Just because an animal does it doesn't mean it's okay for humans to do it

[-] reinei@lemmy.world 25 points 5 months ago

Aren't we also "just" animals as well though?

(Not defending either side, I just really dislike it when statements suggest we aren't also literally animals that somehow figured out to think slightly more than others...)

[-] DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 5 months ago

Technically correct is the best correct. We are animals!

[-] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago

We are animals in a very literal sense, but justifying an immoral act because it's natural for animals to do it opens the door to justifying other immoral acts because animals do them. Humans are animals, but we're uniquely the only animals capable of choosing to act ethically.

[-] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 10 points 5 months ago

Just because an animal does it doesn't mean it's okay for humans to do it

Then comparing human teeth to animal teeth is irrelevant no? Because what the animals do is irrelevant.

[-] Shardikprime@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago

Don't kid yourself, Jimmy boi. If a cow ever got the chance, he'd eat you and everyone you care about!

[-] YeetPics@mander.xyz 7 points 5 months ago
[-] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago

Many animals reproduce via rape. If I need to explain further, then I can't help you

[-] Hyphlosion@donphan.social 3 points 5 months ago

It’s true. I usually eat animals that were killed for me. Thanks, grocery stores!

[-] Dkarma@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago
this post was submitted on 28 May 2024
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