* retreating —> interesting 2 tweets up. Not sure if autocorrect or obscure Freudian slip 
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I personally extend my democratic disposition to all animals, so I’m vegetarian. But I do eat plants. So my generalized principle of democracy is that there are only 3 ways to relate to another living thing: eat it, accept the legitimacy of being eaten by it, or let it vote.
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While I’ll do my best to avoid being eaten by a shark, I accept the possibility as part of the natural order of things. I’m fair game for sharks, potatoes are fair game for me.
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Yeah i think these two ideas have to be linked ("don't be a monster" and "no obligation"). Because you don't get to hide behind "no obligation" if you consume an obscene amount of finite resources and endanger our ecosystems. That's where "have it, so must have earned it" fails.
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Knowingly overconsuming to the point that others are being dehumanized by deprivation is monstrousness. So in principle it’s accounted for. In practice detecting your own monstrousness is hard. By some standards you and I are monsters for chatting on Twitter while people starve.
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"to the world" (not be monster, don't let monster, no obligation, &c.) == knowing the whole world. Takes a zillennia of a life-span, so democracy has *never* seen light of day anywheretime.
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