jerkface
@jerkface@lemmy.ca
My gender is my concern, but you may use any pronoun to refer to me
- Comment on Why do people hate the Kardashians? 1 week ago:
You… admire them??
- Comment on Why is society at large okay with euthanasia for pets but not for humans? 4 weeks ago:
okay. now what?
- Comment on Why is society at large okay with euthanasia for pets but not for humans? 4 weeks ago:
Do you really want me to tell you what I think about Islam and animal abuse?
- Comment on Why is society at large okay with euthanasia for pets but not for humans? 4 weeks ago:
You can place an animal in the open back of a truck in -30C weather and ship them 1,000km, knowing the whole time that the animal will arrive dead, and it is not a crime. No one will bat an eye because it happens THOUSANDS of times a year here in Canada.
You can take a perfectly healthy and happy animal, and stab it right in the throat, because you want the meat, or because you like stabbing animals, and it is not a crime. This also happens thousands of times a year here in Canada.
Certain animals (mainly pets) have very limited protection against abuse, but those laws do not protect the life of the animal or protect the animal from needless suffering, cruelty, or violence. Factory farming exceeds these protections routinely, but the law is set up in many provinces to make reporting these crimes effectively itself a crime.
You can do whatever you want.
- Comment on Why is society at large okay with euthanasia for pets but not for humans? 5 weeks ago:
ha ha okay
- Comment on Why is society at large okay with euthanasia for pets but not for humans? 5 weeks ago:
Because while euthanasia is generally a good thing, there are also big potentials for abuse and unnecessary tragedy. We maintain a pretense of caring about these things with humans and so most governments err on the side of caution while others think they’re such hot shit they can dance their way through the quagmire. Meanwhile, we openly don’t give a single fuck what happens to non-human animals, and our culture is predicated on treating them like objects, so you’re allowed to do whatever you want with them. Kill them because they’re suffering, kill them because they bark too loud, it’s all the same. It’s your dog-shaped object, go nuts.
- Comment on Is the "everyday stuff" supposed to feel normal? Do y'all just have a parent do things then when you're supposed to be the adult you panic? 5 weeks ago:
I haven’t had anyone to take care of me since the 90s and honestly, most stuff just doesn’t get done.
- Comment on basil 1 month ago:
This didn’t happen on its own, it’s a basil grafted on some kind of heartier base.
- Comment on Aside from possible allergy concerns, what's stopping people from grinding all the food waste into a mixed paste? 2 months ago:
I know you don’t really mean it, but I’m going to use your bad faith arguments to point out some things you should know but have probably never thought about.
Let’s accept that you are a fully committed plant’s rights activist. You considered killing yourself out of respect for your plant brother’s experiences, but ultimately you decide that no creature should be obliged to kill itself simply because of its own inherent nature. You cannot help that you need to eat. So what do you do?
You decide that while you have to eat to survive, that doesn’t mean that you can just eat wantonly, whatever and however the urge strikes you, because there are these serious consequences to your plant friends. You look for the way of life that minimizes the number of plants that you have to kill. Easy, you think, you’ll just eat animals!
Until you realize, those animals eat plants. Those animals ate WAY more plants than you would have if you hadn’t eaten any animals. Oh. Shit. The more animals you eat, the more of your plant sisters you are killing. You realize that your ethical convictions demand that you instead eat only plants, and only as many as you need to survive. Because that is the only solution to this ethical quandary.
But of course, in real life, you are not actually concerned with plant’s rights. It was just a ruse you were pulling. You did not go down this train of thought to its logical conclusion. These are not issues that you have spent years and years thinking about. Rather, like most people, you have been trained to not think about them. You’re not engaging with intellectual honesty, you have begun to attempt to frustrate meaningful discussion. I’m giving you a lot of grace here because I don’t think you realize you did it, and I’d like to give you a chance to see it.
- Comment on Aside from possible allergy concerns, what's stopping people from grinding all the food waste into a mixed paste? 2 months ago:
Okay, I can see you have become defensive. It’s understandable. When I finally accepted the vast cruelty and violence I was a part of, it fucking broke me. That is what you are trying to avoid. That is what I tried to avoid for a very long time. Eventually I accepted that I could not be a kind, decent, good person, and continue to use cruelty and violence to exploit unwilling individuals.
I’m going to let you take back your bad faith arguments.
- Comment on Aside from possible allergy concerns, what's stopping people from grinding all the food waste into a mixed paste? 2 months ago:
Just for clarity, I don’t accept that it is okay to keep animals as pets. But that isn’t relevant to the current discussion so I didn’t get into that.
- Comment on Aside from possible allergy concerns, what's stopping people from grinding all the food waste into a mixed paste? 2 months ago:
Those chickens didn’t just happen. Their very existence is abuse. Creating an individual with the preformed intent that you prevent it from becoming able to care for itself, that it will be dependent on you for everything for it’s entire life, that is one of the most abusive things you can do to another individual. Fine, rescue your cats or whatever, but that’s not what you’re talking about right now. You’re talking about a captive individual who exists to convert calories for you, like a machine. They wouldn’t lay eggs anyway; they wouldn’t EXIST. Not as an individual, but also not as a genetic line that is cursed to lay far more eggs than its own interests have any reason for it to lay. It lays so many eggs that its body becomes depleted. It is not natural for chickens to lay eggs so often! That is something that we did to them. And it’s yet more abuse!
The abuse in inescapable when you use an individual’s body for your own purposes.
And again, we are talking about fucking eggs. There is no food shortage. So there is no justification for even a little bit of cruelty and violence. Plus, eggs are not good for you in the first place!!
- Comment on Aside from possible allergy concerns, what's stopping people from grinding all the food waste into a mixed paste? 2 months ago:
- Comment on Aside from possible allergy concerns, what's stopping people from grinding all the food waste into a mixed paste? 2 months ago:
Individuals must be treated as ends, never as means.
- Comment on Aside from possible allergy concerns, what's stopping people from grinding all the food waste into a mixed paste? 2 months ago:
That’s cruel and requires violence. There are situations that justify cruelty and violence, but given that there is no food scarcity, it is not justified now.
- Comment on Aside from possible allergy concerns, what's stopping people from grinding all the food waste into a mixed paste? 2 months ago:
We can easily grow more plants than humanity can collectively eat, and still have plants left over for global industries. There is just no need to be that frugal with food.
- Comment on Jeff Kaplan is sick of hearing you demonize games you weren't going to play anyway: 'Shut the f**k up. No one cares. We don't need to hear that you weren't into it' 2 months ago:
But complaining about things that have nothing to do with me IS my game. :-(
- Comment on Age Verification Laws Are Multiplying Like a Virus, and Your Linux Computer Might be Next 2 months ago:
No, it mightn’t.
- Comment on 10!=10*9*8*7*6*5*4*3*2*1 2 months ago:
It’s not typeset correctly or it would have been obvious and ruined the joke.
- Comment on Farming for self sustainance 2 months ago:
Leave animals and human slaves out of it.
- Comment on Apologies if I'm making an incorrect judgement, but does anybody else get dystopian propaganda vibes from the Working with Cancer Pledge? 2 months ago:
For some people, it’s a legitimate angle on coping with mortality and disease. I agree that it sounds especially ghastly and self-serving coming from the mouth of this organization.
- Comment on Active duty members of the United States, How are you feeling in regards of being under the service of the Amerinazis? 2 months ago:
You’re comparing murdering foreign babies in their beds with serving a side of fries. Why are you working so fucking hard to excuse atrocity. Fuck off, dude.
- Comment on Active duty members of the United States, How are you feeling in regards of being under the service of the Amerinazis? 2 months ago:
okay but if we can see it from here, they can also see it from there
- Comment on Anon disrespects their elders 3 months ago:
I had no idea that was supposed to be the embarrassing part. It’s exactly the same! I can only assume the meme is being ironic.
- Comment on Why are we not getting stress relief games where we take our stresses out on normal people? 3 months ago:
much like abusing animals doesn’t “get it out of your system”
- Comment on Why are we not getting stress relief games where we take our stresses out on normal people? 3 months ago:
Also, I don’t remember asking for armchair psychologists to come here and start dropping unasked thoughts about how to best relieve stress. Check those at the door.
oshi-- you guys its the king of fediverse
- Comment on Why do russian parents insist on being treated to home cooked meals? 3 months ago:
how do you know when someone is needlessly cruel and violent to vulnerable individuals don’t worry they never stop telling you ha ha ha cool name dude
- Comment on How would you describe that post sneeze smell? 3 months ago:
If it smells like decomposing calcium, you have tooth decay and should see a dentist. Most sneezes don’t smell.
- Comment on Nope, not visiting that 3 months ago:
Nobody is creating snapshots, the past is lost, but in a sense it is still entirely, umm, present (forgive the pun). It is apparently not true that there is more than one past that could have evolved into the present. This has bothered me a lot and I don’t entirely understand in this moment why that is, but I’ve looked into it several times and every time eventually assured myself that it was so. Though I haven’t accounted for the idea that spaces that were once causally bound to each other can possibly become causally unbound… oh well, down the rabbit hole again.
- Comment on Nope, not visiting that 3 months ago:
cool, no, what’s the concept