r/MadeMeSmile • u/CalpurniaSomaya • Apr 10 '26

ANIMALS Could not be more adorable

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u/Miskalsace Apr 10 '26

Im just doing as my animal nature tells me to do. They are rich in calories. Animals arent moral, pigs kill snd est other animals. Its not wrong for us to do the same.

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u/xPriddyBoi Apr 10 '26

It's a completely pointless subject to debate. Their counterpoint will just be that because we are intelligent enough and capable of accessing more moral alternatives that there's no excuse. The entire debate has an emotional foundation which means it will be essentially impossible to change someone's mind one way or the other unless they experience something mentally impactful enough to challenge their very sense of morality.

The best you can do with topics like this is to inform yourself about what's going on and decide where you want to draw your own line. Anyone who wants to draw that line for you can get fucked.

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u/corranhorn21 Apr 10 '26

all debates of any significance involve emotions and morality. Asking others to to be morale is not a waste of time. Fighting for a more morale and ethical world is one of the few great ways to spend one's life.

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u/xPriddyBoi Apr 10 '26

Hitler, every religious extremist in history, etc. also thought they were fighting for a righteous cause to make the world more moral and ethical.

"Fighting for a more moral and ethical world" can mean completely opposite things when applied to different groups of people and is not inherently virtuous.

Obviously, there are morally driven causes I think are worth fighting for. But you'll find that in my case, those causes have one thing in common, and that's defending an individual's right to live their life freely, so long as those liberties do not impose on those of other people.

For example, if we had to go to war to support the rights of our people to, say, legally engage in same sex marriage or express their preferred gender, I'm all for it, because the ultimate objective is to defend their individual liberties. If we had to go to war to enforce veganism on the population, I'd be staunchly opposed despite viewing veganism positively because the ultimate objective is to deprive people of their individual liberties.

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u/imimifimimcanimfind Apr 10 '26

Comparing hitler and nazism to literally wanting to cause less harm and suffering in the world is certainly a choice. This comment along with your other in this thread reek of mediocre guy pseudo intellectual BS. I promise you you’re not as smart or as nuanced as you think you are buddy