Lack of empathy, material understanding of pain is enough for me to process this, don't need abstract moral frame
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fair enough. There's clearly pain involved in the process of making most commercially available meat. Factory farms and such.
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yeah, one of the few issues I'm firmly partisan on is factory farming...
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so, are only the factory farmers at fault, or are the people who eat their products complicit?
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My buddy Erik Marcus would argue all are complicit to some degree, in proportion to knowledge and ability to change
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Don't have one yet. It's one of those TINA type traps where apparent agency to change is higher than actual.
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Not yet, because they have conveniently blinded themselves to things that would make them object if they saw
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hunters sell themselves a very different class of bullshit about "honor" and "manliness" and crap
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Killing large mammal requires more mental hardening than fish. We're genetically disposed to empathize with mammals
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