Kacarott

@Kacarott@feddit.de

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why was my post deleted?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Your question was deemed too stupid for No Stupid Questions

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It is apparently controversial⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Anyone can clearly see if edits have been made, and I have not made any. Please don’t fabricate lies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It is apparently controversial⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t it?

  When those are just the precursors to the horrible murder, I’d have to say yes, magnitudes worse.

  And I never asked you to explain why rape is awful, I never disagreed with that. I wanted you to explain why it being a precursor to murder, makes it magnitudes worse than murder. But for some reason you insist on pretending that I’m asking “why is rape awful”??

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It is apparently controversial⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure why you are being so condescending. I’m well aware how brutal rape can be, I’m also aware how brutal murder can be. But this doesn’t explain the logic of yours that I wanted to understand, which was that “when rape includes murder, then rape is magnitudes worse than murder alone”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It is apparently controversial⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah ok. I was thinking of specific instances rather than an indefinitely long situation, so I see where you are coming from now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It is apparently controversial⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Then I think I’m not understanding something here, maybe you can explain (asking genuinely). Because it seems to me that what you said doesn’t make sense with the definition of the word?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It is apparently controversial⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It wasn’t whether they are worse, but if they are magnitudes worse. If the kidnap, imprisonment and rape of one person is comparable to the murder of hundreds or thousands of people (since that would be magnitudes more).

  In my opinion to call one magnitudes worse than the other is to immensely downplay the seriousness of the other.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It is apparently controversial⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So to be clear, when something is magnitudes more than something else, that means on the scale of 100-1000x more, or even higher powers of ten. If rape + murder is magnitudes worse than murder, then definitionally rape alone must also be magnitudes worse than murder.

  Of course multiple atrocities are worse than a single atrocity, but talking about one being magnitudes worse than the other, to me seems to immensely downplay the seriousness of the other.

  For example, to me “murder is magnitudes worse than petty theft” would be an appropriate use of the word.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It is apparently controversial⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe I’m misunderstanding, but it sounds like you are trying to say that kidnap and rape are magnitudes more horrible than being horribly murdered?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not trying to make a case for or against veganism, or hunting. My point is that “we are animals and animals sometimes do X” implying that makes it ok, is bad logic. Animals also sometimes eat their young, or murder or rape other creatures of the same species.

  Now like I said, I’m not arguing against or for veganism here, I think there are good arguments for both sides, I just don’t think that the “we are animals” argument is one of them :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I respect your viewpoint, but I wanted to point out that I think the argument of “animals do X, therefore it’s ok” isn’t a really good one, imo. In fact I think one of the features of being human is being able to rise above what other animals do, when we think it is a good idea. (Whether it’s a good idea here though, is another topic)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Calling a group of people condescending, then accusing them of having limited brain function is a little hypocritical doncha think?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think part of the issue is people tend to conflate “does something immoral/less moral than an alternative” and “is a bad person”.

  I think most meat eaters would acknowledge that meat is inherently worse for the environment, and also less moral due to more animal suffering, than not eating meat. Doing so does not make them bad people, just like owning an iPhone doesn’t make someone a bad person, etc. And yet when the topic of "meat is immoral " comes up, people very quickly seem to think it is an accusation of them being a bad person?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure why you are making up imaginary arguments. Have you ever heard anyone ever accuse someone else of “not being vegan anymore” because they ate a non vegan product? I know quite a few vegans, I try to be vegan myself (but quite often cave, cheese is delicious), and all the vegans I know would be simply thrilled to know that someone was making an effort at all. Literally no one cares if you aren’t 100% vegan, basically no one is anyway. But if you decide once a week to eat a vegan meal instead of a steak, great!! That’s still helping the planet, better for the animals, etc.

  But making up these ridiculous vegan cliches doesn’t help anyone, it just makes more people annoyed at each other.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But I mean, that’s literally what their ideas are, how else should they promote them? Are you mad that they aren’t just pretending that meat is good, for the benefit of the listeners?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s much more like politics than it is religion. People take a stance because of their values, ethics, mortality, etc (as opposed to religion which is generally a more irrational basis for belief). And the reasons for being loud about it follow from that.

  So if you can understand why someone might proselytize about the situation in Gaza, then you should also understand why someone might proselytize for veganism, even if your views might align differently for different issues.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In seriousness, the reason people try spread vegan ideas is the exact same reason people try spread their political ideas: because they believe there is injustice in the world which they are trying to help fix.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  While I agree, I am also not sure why vegans are being singled out for this, since I see memes and post shoving leftist politics down people’s throats constantly, and not just in political channels.

  It seems that for most people, the throat shoving is only a problem when they disagree with the content, and there are a lot less vegans on Lemmy than leftists.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨wat⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There must be add-vantages to this design.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What firing your PR team does to a motherfucker⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re of course free to watch whatever you like, but it seems to be that if you are going to boycott anything which involves someone who happens to be an asshole, then there isn’t going to be anything left for you to enjoy.