The definition of a person is a distinct individual who can communicate in some meaningful way with another member of the same recursively defined category of person. Personhood is relative and defined entirely by networks not any specific genes, memes, or chemicals.
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Make vegetables taste as good as meat and I'll stop. Alternately just teach every multi-cellular organism how to talk.
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Wtf!? Why would you only stop eating meat of I made vegetables taste less good than they already do? Also, they can talk even if you can't understand them...
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I just said, the ability to understand something is the sole predication of personhood. If I can understand them, it doesn't matter if they talk or not, they have become people from my perspective. All existence is relative to something else.
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Constructing a universal standard of ethics would also require you to recognize the inherent humanity in plants, rocks, and single celled organisms. Every action you take would be an orgy of violence.
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The Microbiome of your stomach alone contains more cells than the rest of your body. By total weight It is more alive than you, and the nerve endings which communicate with them form a bigger network than your brain.
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But to us, it's all just shit, and eating anything meat or vegetables, kills countless living organisms which are just as complex and alive as any animal. And not eating anything at all would kill a collection of beings that are more alive than you.
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Vegetarianism is the refuge of self righteous hypocrisy trying to disguise it's own biased moral relativism through specious claims of moral objectivity, but no such thing can possibly exist. Only sophists and fools claim this is a contradiction.
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lol no it isn't I'm a moral nihilist. Both an amoralist and an immoralist. Animal agriculture is intimately tied to the patriarchal capitalist superstructure, both historically and ideologically, and as such consumption of meat is fundamentally heteronormative.
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