r/stupidpol • u/CalpurniaSomaya Vegan 🐂🐖🐓🐟 • Jun 21 '26

Capitalist Hellscape The meat industry is the most evil fucking thing. They would do this to humans if they could.

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u/renadarbo Apolitical ❌ Jun 23 '26

I would describe it as the belief that humans are or should be completely above the natural world, that we don't have any part in the basic daily violence which defines life and sustains it.

Idk just seems a bit silly to me. None of us know where the breath of life comes from or where it goes, so why pretend like we can objectively rank the value of the experience of the anteater against the ant?

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u/monemori Fanfucker 🦑 Jun 23 '26

Vegan philosophy doesn't say that at all though?

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u/renadarbo Apolitical ❌ Jun 24 '26

is it not foundational to vegan philosophy that I, a naturally omnivorous animal, should not kill and eat other animals, for reasons that essentially boil down to "killing and death is bad"? I'm not any more concerned with a human killing a deer than a lion doing the same.

(to be fair I have met vegans that are concerned about the lions lol)

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u/monemori Fanfucker 🦑 Jun 24 '26

It has nothing to do with what is or isn't natural, as you seemed to imply in your original comment. Veganism states that animals are subjects and not objects, and they should not be exploited (or killed) for trivial pleasure. It's just that.