They threaded the needle on it, but they came back around to a point about the subject in the end.
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zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 5 months agoWhataboutism.
TheDoozer@lemmy.world 5 months ago
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zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 5 months agoWhataboutism.
They threaded the needle on it, but they came back around to a point about the subject in the end.
Norgur@fedia.io 5 months ago
No, im not saying you shouldn't care about animals or that the matter of suffering animals is a trivial one because other things. That would be whataboutism. I'm saying that no one can care about all the suffering in the world at once. So you can't blame people if they care about a suffering that's not top priority to you and vice versa.
I used the other things I listed as examples to demonstrate that a vegan might not care as much about other things that are bad as well. Which is fine. As I said: the only people we should really annoy are those who are doing nothing at all to better the pain and suffering in this world.
amzd@kbin.social 5 months ago
Well that sounds like an appeal to futility while going vegan is so much simpler than eg stopping suffering in Gaza or Ukraine. It’s just choosing the plant milk that’s probably even in the same supermarket isle that you are in anyway.