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INB4 "vegans bad" but I think this is also reflected in how we treat animals. I know I couldn't kill an a cow, a chicken or a pig. I see in them the same will to live in peace as I see in my fellow humans and empathy makes it so that I would see it as cruel to rob them of it.
Edit: the plants rights activists have found this comment. It's interesting, the same refusal to recognize reality, our shared reality, in which for example plants are not sentient while non-human animals are and are therefore deserving of empathy, this refusal is also at the root of fascism. People who are open to fascism refuse to recognize the reality in which a jewish person is not worse than any other person, in which immigrants aren't worse than your average neighbour down the street and in which trans people deserve as much a right to be left alone as they claim for themselves.
To take this line if thought to the extreme, I see the same will to live in peace in a carrot.
Then you should go see a doctor. Plants don't have "a will". You need sentience and a subjective experience of existence for that.
Empathy is what you feel; not what the object of your empathy feels
Where did I claim that this is not the case?
Nowhere, not necessarily. But you did invalidate another person's feelings of empathy by telling them to "go to the doctor" for it, which is pretty shitty behavior
Please read again.
Let's not pretend that person really cares for carrots or has empathy for them. And if you feel that inanimate objects do have a will, then you should see a doctor, as I imagine that is highly debilitating. Not an insult, but sad that genuine advice is seen that way.
You should try having some empathy.