Comment on Why isn't it considered vegan to harvest animals who die naturally?

• givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  but did you want to answer the question

  I did…

  it was made up in the 1940s by some guy who thought vegetarians weren’t good enough, and he set whatever rules he wanted to

  Every reason why you can/can’t do something and be Vegan, is because the guy who made the word up ~80 years ago decided it should be like that

  You’re acting like it’s a math or science, like it’s based on logic or something…

  It’s not, so the answer to “why” is essentially “because the founder said that”?

  Does that make sense now?

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  • Beacon@fedia.io ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I'm not vegan and I'm here to tell you that your argument isn't valid. Whoever invented a word doesn't get to permanently declare exactly what it means down to the tiniest detail. Words change meaning over time. I would guess that especially new words change over time. The word "awful" originally meant full of awe. The word "terrible" originally meant a thing caused terror.

    It doesn't matter what the creator of the word thought.

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    • givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It doesn’t matter what the creator of the word thought

      Yeah…

      That’s why I said:

      You can just keep using his word, but not care about his rules.

      Thanks for aggressively agreeing with me I guess?

      Weird move, and I think it’s more likely you were just confused, it works better if you ask questions when you’re confused.

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