tekila

@tekila@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Today's featured article on Wikipedia: Outer Wilds⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  After playing this game I watched so many streams and let’s play of it. I enjoyed seeing how people did it differently than me.

  I also convinced my partner to play it on Christmas as my gift for me to watch. (They were instantly hooked)

  This is one on my favorite games ever

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨those damn vegans!⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s it, now I’m gonna go eat twice as many legumes as I usually eat just because of this post!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What multiplayer games having singleplayer/offline mods?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes CS2 has an offline mode.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More than 15% of teens say they’re on YouTube or TikTok ‘almost constantly’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok it feels like you’re just starting to spam answers without even taking the time to argument on why you think something. I try to take the time to justify my position and you just answer with small sentences that don’t do anything for an interesting discussion.

  Let’s stop there, have a nice day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More than 15% of teens say they’re on YouTube or TikTok ‘almost constantly’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s your morally relevant argument for killing for example cows for taste pleasure and not humans then? What’s this special trait humans have that other sentient being do not possess that allows us to do that to them?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More than 15% of teens say they’re on YouTube or TikTok ‘almost constantly’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes I agree in principle that it’s a discrimination. They way I used discrimination was implying that someone on the “bad” side of the discrimination could be discriminated against. My bad I should have clearly defined the way I used this term. Sorry English is not my first language as well.

  In any case a discrimination that does not hurt the discriminated or another sentient being is of no consequence for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More than 15% of teens say they’re on YouTube or TikTok ‘almost constantly’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  But you would agree that the rocks themselves cannot have an issue with it? That’s the gist of the sentientist position. Sentient beings have an interest in living, not being exploited and thus the sentientist position goes further and say that for the same reasons we say that humans have a right to live (i.e.: not being killed) or being exploited, we should extend the same rights to sentient beings because there is no morally relevant difference between us and other sentient beings that would justify killing them when you would not kill a human being in the same position.

  Note that this does not mean all sentient beings should have exactly the same rights. Obviously giving the right to vote to a cow does not make sense, the same way we don’t give the right to abortion to cis men because they cannot make use of this right.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More than 15% of teens say they’re on YouTube or TikTok ‘almost constantly’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok let me unpack your two points:

  • The difference with the sentience criteria is that a non-sentient being by definition cannot be hurt by actions taken against their being as there is quite literally no subject, no one, to experience anything. Would you say that someones that likes smashing rocks is discriminating against rocks? Of course not because it makes no sense to speak about discrimination for a non sentient being/object. The only time where you can make an argument that doing something to a non sentient being is an issue is when it affects a sentient being.

  • Again as I’ve literally stated in my earlier comment the discrimination is not based on species but on sentience. If you want a more concrete example, let’s imagine a philosophical zombie or in other terms a non-sentient human. I would not include such a being in my moral circle by itself as it would lack sentience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More than 15% of teens say they’re on YouTube or TikTok ‘almost constantly’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess we all have our blind spots :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More than 15% of teens say they’re on YouTube or TikTok ‘almost constantly’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Again that’s a misunderstanding of the position. The discriminatory criteria is sentience. If a plant was found to be sentient, this plant would be included in the moral circle. You can make the same argument for things we consider animals but lack all of what we currently consider needed for sentience. An example would be a sea sponge. I personally do not include a sea sponge in my moral circle and I do not think they have any sentience even though they are considered animals. I would also consider someone that says sea sponge should be included in our moral circle just because they are part of the animal kingdom to be quite dogmatic.

  And even if we want to debate on whether a sea sponge is sentient, there is absolutely no debate on most animals we currently kill for food or exploit for entertainment. They are clearly sentient.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More than 15% of teens say they’re on YouTube or TikTok ‘almost constantly’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  There was a chapter in his book “Starry Messenger” dedicated to this subject. I unfortunately cannot reproduce the entire chapter here. However, here is a video essay on it that you can watch if you’re interested. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbXw13Npvlg (25min)

  One of his dumbest argument imho was trying to claim that vegans were specist towards plants, even though no scientific existence of sentience in plants exist which is the moral criteria used in most anti-specist philosophy. I will add that even if plants were all found to be sentient, we’d still kill less sentient beings by eating them directly rather than feeding them to non-human animals and then killing them.

  Here is another video of him talking about this very chapter for example: www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9HrMdNEKPA (6min). I think this shows a complete misunderstanding of what vegans and anti-specism is about. To me it seems like he does not even consider the sentience of the animals and considers them as machines. He also seems to straw man the position to “vegans want to protect life”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More than 15% of teens say they’re on YouTube or TikTok ‘almost constantly’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  As long as he sticks to subjects he clearly understands. Everytime I’ve read or watched one of his take on veganism/anti-specism I was left dumbfounded and ashamed for him.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft may lose $120 million due to the Overwatch League shutdown⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone not playing valorant I think it’s really confusing to watch. Not quite to the level of League of Legends or DOTA2 but still.

  Counter strike is more straight forward as you don’t have multiple heroes with their own powers.

  On the other hand street fighter or rocket league are the easiest to watch, followed I feel like by CS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk wants to merge humans with AI. How many brains will be damaged along the way?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Just as it still makes it not right for cows and chickens it makes it not right for monkeys. Or would you be OK if I was breeding humans for slavery purposes?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Update: Unity office death threat was made by a Unity employee⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  They were working from another office per the article.