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• Soulg@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  That’s a personal choice that people are allowed to make for themselves.

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  • starman2112@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    See this is what I told people when they found out I had sex with my dog, and they said I was crazy and abusive! Like, it’s my own choice!

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    • starman2112@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      >inb4 some child left behind replies with “are you equating eating meat for sustenance with rape?”

      Yes. You could eat something else for sustenance. The reason you choose meat is because it’s a more enjoyable experience for you, despite the inherent harm. That sounds similar to another topic I mentioned in this comment

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  • Carnelian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    That misses the question a bit, no? Everything that is wrong to do is a personal choice. It’s not relevant to whether or not it should be done

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    • Soulg@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Not really, some things are objectively bad and wrong and other things are merely subjective.

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      • toomanypancakes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Killing someone who’s done nothing to you and doesn’t want to die is pretty objectively bad.

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      • JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        What is the ‘objective’ source of your morality?

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      • Jumuta@sh.itjust.works ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        even things like killing being bad is not objective in my opinion, it just simply stems from our minds and societies’ process of growth through natural selection.

        We believe that killing is bad only because we share the majority of their DNA and we are close genetically to what we’re killing. It was evolutionarily incentivised to not kill those that are genetically close, as they and we share common ancestors from which such thoughts evolved.

        this is imo why we value humans more than other animals, animals more than vegetables and relatives over strangers. Friends being valued more than strangers make sense as well, as they share ideas in the place of the shared genome.

        in a wider scope none of this matters anyway, our lives and deaths are irrelevant to the universe and our lives don’t actually matter outside what our minds tell us.

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  • RobotZap10000@feddit.nl ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Are the animals also allowed a choice in the matter?

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• shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Homosexuality has been observed among a great many species, particularly birds and mammals.

  What where we talking about again?

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  • starman2112@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    What were you hoping to achieve with this? You sure showed them, not all natural activities are bad. Unfortunately, they didn’t say that. You’re arguing against nobody

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  • flamingos@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Killing and eating your children has been observed among a great many species, particularly lizards and mammals.

    What where we talking about again?

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    • Lemminary@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Eh, it doesn’t mean that it wasn’t at one point or that it can’t be part of our reproductive strategy in the future. I’d even say that murder and cannibalism are very normal aspects of our species.

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