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[-] Gloomy@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Virtually nobody who eats meat feels guilty about it

I felt guilty about it and became a vegetarian and, once I leaned about how milk and eggs lead to death and suffering, a vegan. I have been so for 10 years plus now.

Animals are there to be food.

Yes, but only in the same sense that woman are there for the plesure and serving of men. It's a social construction and is, as it thankfully has with the perception of woman, changing.

If there was a life form that could eat me it would, and I'd have to accept that.

I don't think so. I think you'd ramble in about how unethical it is to eat a sentient beeing and how cruel this hypothetical lifeform is. Because that's how we are build. It's easiest for us to feel empathie towards our own sorry asses.

You can learn to expand your empathie tough. Start here. Watch it completely. No skipping. Then we can talk:

https://youtu.be/LQRAfJyEsko?si=MT8NgPIU0bpIpg3i

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