Comment on Why isn't it considered vegan to harvest animals who die naturally?
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 5 hours agobut 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?
Beacon@fedia.io 4 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.
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Yeah…
That’s why I said:
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.