Are there any vegan communities on the internet which actually lift up veganism instead of seeking confrontation?
I'm not vegan or vegetarian but why the fuck is it that whenever I come across a post like this, all the comments are people from other instances whining? If you don't like the movement then block and move on.
Most people understand that killing for culinary pleasure is extremely fucked up. It's a self evident conclusion.
In our age using animal products is done because it is either pleasurable or convient. It takes active effort to deny the sheer horror of the reality of that. Anything that threatens to undermine the denial is thus hostile, and so needs to be attacked.
you know this, it's why you're here attempting to salve your conscience with sympathy.
killing for culinary pleasure is extremely fucked up
i’d argue that that’s simplistic
people all have a line; vegans included… we kill yeast to make bread, and people are fine with that. there’s a line between yeast and humans, and we all draw it somewhere… which is to say nothing about the difference between vegetarian and vegan
having a conversation about morals is fine; passing judgement on someone for their alternative views on where the line is is what most people don’t like
my mistake, wiping down a surface with 70% ethanol is equivalent to strangling a puppy. Barkon tomorrow morning it is!
i never said they were equivalent. i said there was a line; to say that they’re equivalent is disingenuous and to say that killing a chicken is the same as killing a human is equally so - not advocating either way, but they are different things
I'm gonna eat a dolphin and you can't criticise me <3
Yeast is a single celled fungus and not an animal. The line is at animals.
It is absolutely ok to pass judgement on people for doing something cruel, torturous, environmentally damaging and unnecessary.
I pass judgement on Israel for carrying out a terrorist attack.
Get the out of here with this no one can pass judgement and what about the plants nonsense.
If the line is at animals we commit genocide of small multicellular animals in order to get clean water
swatting a mosquito then? the argument remains valid
People don't look at the community, browse all, and find the post. It's how I'm here.
Anyway, I've been cooking with quinoa more. Anyone got some good recipes?
"I'm in this picture and I don't like it."
While there are logical arguments to me made for veganism, many rely on emotional reasoning.
As opposed to the extremely non-emotional arguments such as "But I like how meat tastes" and "cheese tho" and "for every animal you don't eat I'm gonna eat two"?
Sure emotional arguments are used by everyone.
This is a completely arbitrary point and makes no sense.
And what exactly is a logical reasoning?
Pretty much all political reasoning is emotional, but for some reason, only the "other side" gets emotional.
Wanting equality is an emotional reason. Wanting absolute freedom is emotional. Freedom of speech, aristocracy, fascism, anarchism, progressive income tax are all, if you keep asking "why?" emotional choices.
If, at any point, someone says something is good or bad, well, that's emotional, simply because these are purely human categories that are not rational.
Vegans: Violently killing animals for no reason, ruining the environment, destroying cultures with animals is both logically and empathetically wrong
Libs: BOTH SIDESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
You can make a purely rational environmental argument with reducing CO2 emissions.
A pure appeal to emotion is showing slaughterhouse footage or other animal suffering.
A utilitarian philosophical argument about reducing suffering is also logical, not emotional.
A emotional spiritual appeal can be made with karmic debt accumulated or similar.
I don't give a flying fuck about CO2. I care that you are murdering an animal and ending its life for no reason. Animals have rights including the right to live without your torturing them and mudering them. Everything else is out of scope for veganism. It is an ethical position advocating for the rights of animals, not a utilitarian calculation.
You can make a purely rational environmental argument with reducing CO2 emissions.
Please do this without resorting to an emotional motivation such as "People enjoy being alive and not suffering" or whatever.
That’s not an emotional argument. The drive to survive is universal for all living beings.
What do to mean when you say "emotional argument"? I understand it as something like "an argument which rests on an appeal to an emotional experience" or similar.
For example a mathematical proof is not an emotional argument, as a being without any emotions would be able to verify it as true.
However "people don't want to die, so you shouldn't kill them" is an emotional argument as it fundamentally rests on the counterfactual "a person assumed to have qualia observing a universe in which they had been killed might experience negative valence". Which only makes sense if the notion of another being you assume to have qualia being sad in a way which is impossible in reality upsets you.
Of course that's emotional.
Reducing suffering is based on the idea that I don't like suffering, therefore I don't want others to suffer. That's emotional.
There are whole schools of philosophy around suffering, its necessity, and its reduction. Utilitarianism is one of that. Philosophy is based on logic, not straight emotions.
If you say, “I don’t like suffering” to someone with a “no pain, no gain” shirt, your argument is weaker.
This is nonsense. you should study philosophy and stop reading "rationalist" blogs.
Philosophy is based on logic, not straight emotions
Yeah, sorry, but that's straight untrue.
As I wrote before, every time you're doing a value judgement, you're arguing based on emotions.
Saying shredding two animals causes more suffering than shredding no animals is a rational, provable statement. But whether suffering is bad or not, is a value judgement and thus not rational.
If you say, “I don’t like suffering” to someone with a “no pain, no gain” shirt, your argument is weaker.
And both of these statements are value judgement, you're doing a category error here.
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