Comment on "Being vegan is unnatural"

• bearboiblake@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That’s exactly how people justified slavery in the past, and it is how the person I replied to justified their argument. That’s my entire point. It’s the same argument.

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  • goedel@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    other animals are a different species

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  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Except that slaves were/are humans. Literally the same species.

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    • bearboiblake@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yes, obviously, we all agree on that today, but at the time, that wasn’t widely accepted.

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      • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        So one day we’ll all agree that cows and humans are the same species? Is that the implication?

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• Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That’s the point

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  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The point is that the animals I eat are the same species as me?

    You seem confused.

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    • Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You seem to have extremely poor reading comprehension.

      The point is that slavers used racist pseudoscience to claim that enslaved people were a different, “lesser” species, to justify their enslavement. Not only was this incorrect, but even if it were true it would provide no justification. Speciesism is irrational and the human-invented line between species is completely irrelevant to the moral worth of individuals on either side of that line.

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      • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Right, but cows are not the same species as human.

        Or are you literally arguing against the entire concept of specication? Becuase if so, then that’s really fucking stupid.

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