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    What if you buy food from someone you know murdered children to get it? It’s so obviously wrong that buying food is never an immoral act. If you are interested in having philosophical conversations, then you really need to go back to the basics. At this point, you’re trying to join an archery competition with a nurf toy. There are undeniably immoral ways to get food. Destroying the planet and torturing animals for slightly cheaper food that you do not absolutely need to survive is absolutely immoral. The reason it is so hard for you to see this is because you are an addict making excuses. Not because you are starving and need the cheapest, most despicable food.

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      It’s so obviously wrong that buying food is never an immoral act.

      I allowed that there may be some reason buying some food might be immoral.

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        Because if not, then you are putting your own mere 20 minutes of pleasure higher than entire lives of tight, confined, indoor, away from their children and parents, raped, drugged, mutilated while alive of animals. There is no chance that if an animal was living like this on your property such that you had to see it daily, you wouldn’t save it. As it is, nearly everyone happily hires billionaires to do it for them. Most of the time they hide behind “but I neeeeeed foooood!!!”. I’ve not given those scumbags a penny in many years, and I’m alive, I’m not rich, and I am absolutely well nourished. I’ve recently done multiple marathons.

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          early everyone happily hires billionaires to do it for them.

          no one hires billionaires.

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            You pay someone to do something for you. Whether this is hiring or paying someone for a service is just semantics. There is an obvious reason why this sort of petty rebuttal is all you are able to use as a response.

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          ou are putting your own mere 20 minutes of pleasure higher than entire lives

          the animal is dead long before i decide what to eat. my decision is not a value judgement on their lives.

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            The fact that you habitually pay people to do that animals is what causes them to do this to future animals. You understand this. It tells something that your best defense is this to excuse your actions.

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              people have free will, and so their choices cannot be said to be caused by anything other than their will. I am not responsible for what people in the meat industry do.

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                If someone pays someone else $1,000,000 to kill their ex-girlfriend, is only the murderer morally responsible?

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                    Paying someone to do immoral actions that harm innocent animals and the environment that we all are forced to share. That is the connection.

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          I thought we were discussing ecological impacts. this seems to be an entirely different r discussion.

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            The factory farming industry has very significant ecological impacts. In addition to the extreme suffering and misery that it causes to sentient beings. It’s really a lose-lose.

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              it seems like muddying the waters. why is it so hard to focus on the effectiveness of consumer action in reducing ecological impacts? that is the topic

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                I see the people consuming the meat and animal products as consumers. I see the impact they have on the planet as ecological impact. I don’t see how this is off topic.

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        Guess again. Almost certainly, you are contributing a significant portion of your energy and money to billionaires who torture animals in ways that you would be unable to even watch.

        https://youtu.be/LQRAfJyEsko

        I’ve been wrong plenty before, but I would be astonished if you are capable of even viewing the atrocities that you commit. That’s how disgusting the things people hire billionaires to do in the name of cheap meat it.

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            Yeah. It does suck to see what the average person chooses to spend their life paying people to do to animals. It especially sucks if you are one of the people paying them to do it.

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              no, they’re not. this YouTube video does not show standard practices even in mid 2010s in Australia where it was filmed

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                Try and find out the standard practices of the factory farm where the meat from your local area comes from. They don’t make it easy to find out, and if you do find out, it is currently much worse than what was happening 15 years ago. There is a good reason for this, too. In most regards, the rule is that they can’t be too much worse than the average behavior. This is causing a horrific drift to worse and worse practices.

                There is almost no push back on this because the average person is so reluctant to admit that they may be supporting something so vile that they stand behind whatever it is these farms do without having any actual idea of what’s going on. Nobody is checking in on these places and coming out saying alls good other than the people making a ton of money off them.

                If you don’t know for sure that you get animal products from good places, then it is almost guaranteed that you don’t. If you don’t care to even find out, then you are the normal consumer, and you have accepted that your pleasure matters more than the treatment of the animals in them. You are not the minority. You are the merciless masses with no morality in this regard.

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                  You are the merciless masses with no morality in this regard.

                  you have no idea what my morality is

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                    You are right, but I can make a very educated guess based on the deprivety that you insist on trying to defend. If you have been pretending this whole time and you actually have concern for the planet and for the well-being of others, then great. It’s a strange thing to troll about, but that would be much better than if you actually hold the opinions you are pretending to.

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                  you have accepted that your pleasure matters more than the treatment of the animals in them.

                  I don’t believe this, but it’s clear you do. yet you don’t seem to want to accept it. I offer a solution: mind your own business.

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                    Never. The future of the planet and the well-being of those less fortunate will always matter more to me than the sensitive feelings of the selfish and willfully ignorant.

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          I would be astonished if you are capable of even viewing the atrocities that you commit.

          i am not in your youtube video at all. don’t lie.

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            You hire these people because you are too ashamed or disgusted to do it yourself, that’s why you can’t ven view what you pay people to do.

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      you accusation of addiction is a personal attack. it has no bearing on the truth of any of the claims I’ve made.

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        It absolutely does. You would be able to see it if the addiction in question was cheap animal products. Your brain is clouded by the fact that since food is required to live, then no food can be an addiction. You’re simply wrong. You and many people can be addicted to cheap, unhealthy food that harms the planet. As a result of it, you excise your own deplorable behavior.

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          Your brain is clouded

          are you a psychologist? are you my psychologist? frankly, you are acting irresponsibly and you should consider staying in your own expertise.

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            It doesn’t take any specialty to see this. That’s how obvious it is. When someone is deluding themselves to this extent, it is easy to see from the outside. Spend some time with someone who is addicted to things that you are not, and you will see.

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                    It’s easy to go back and read this. You left the topic without responding. You made some joke about psychiatry because you couldn’t come up with anything that made sense as a rebuttal to what I said. I’m not surprised, this is par for the course when people want to try to “win” an argument without actually having anything they feel makes sense. It’s fine, you do you, I’ve said my piece and you couldn’t say yours because you haven’t found it yet.

                    I’ve got my earworm in you, and maybe eventually, as you get older, you will occasionally consider it. If not you, then maybe someone who reads this. If anyone out there decides to be a bit more thoughtful in the way they live, then great. I also have been helped because I put myself in a position where maybe I would hear something intelligent that improved my stance. You failed to deliver, but that’s out of my hands, I didn’t expect much more out of you in this case since people like you always fail in this regard. Doesn’t stop me from trying, though. Maybe eventually someone in your camp will finally do something impressive.