Comment on "Being vegan is unnatural"
ghost@literature.cafe 5 months ago
The argument that non-human animals do not possess some vague set of traits that make humans the only species worthy of being classified as ‘people,’
Metacognition. It’s just metacognition. Not vague in the slightest. You can argue that it isn’t a good criterion, but it’s a very clear one.
That criterion fails Karl Popper’s principle of scientific falsifiability. Pick some criteria for which you could design an experiment that clearly and persuasively differentiates its presence from its absence.
I don’t agree with the use of the word “sociopathic”. It’s Greek for “socially ill” and has historically been associated with pseudoscientific stereotypes applied with people with antisocial personality disorder. Mental disorders are not bourgeois, they are proletarian. They are associated with hardship and trauma, not privilege.
Why would I read books by authors willing to use ableist slurs? Martha Stout and Paul Babiak sound like terrible people I want to hear nothing from. I’m already sure their opinions on mental disorders are worthless pseudoscientific garbage.
goedel@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
comparing slaves to animals is exactly what slavers do
Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
We are all animals, and we are comparable
arrow74@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
So according to you slaves are animals, neat
Gold_E_Lox@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
worst bad faith argument ive seen in a while, thanks for not trying
caurvo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
It is cruel to treat other life cruelly.
In the eyes of slavers, slaves would be seen as animals and treated as such. In the eyes of meat farmers, animals are treated poorly too.
I don’t understand the point you are trying to make.
goedel@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
yep. you can compare an apple to an orange.