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2018-02-21 at 11:23 PM UTC in We have a moral obligation to stop eating meat
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2018-02-21 at 11:22 PM UTC in We have a moral obligation to stop eating meat
Originally posted by Open Your Mind Why can't I just eat animals because they taste good? Or because I want to?
And why do I need a "good rational defense", or even any defense at all? Shouldn't you first explain the moral obligation that I'm supposed to be refusing to accept?
You're free to do so, but if you accept the basic proposition that physically harming another living thing is wrong, for example, the mass slaughter which happens in animal-based agriculture on a regular basis, then you should commit yourself to inflicting less of it on them, where the matter is in your control. That means picking the vegetarian option at restaurants, switching from bacon to oatmeal, etc. The small changes we all make add up.
You need a good, rational defense for your choices because this is a discussion forum and you've entered a thread with the intention of arguing about ethics.
Originally posted by Juicebox I was a vegetarian but I wrecked my bike and they want me to get a large amount of protein and calcium so my collarbone and shoulder blade will heal
Maybe I should just drink a lot of beer instead
You live in the first world; there is absolutely no reason you couldn't have gotten that protein and calcium from enriched dairy or soy products. Shit, you could've mixed beans and rice. You ate meat because you're a bitch. -
2018-02-21 at 11:15 PM UTC in We have a moral obligation to stop eating meat
Originally posted by HTS It tastes good and it's easy to get. Good and rational explanation right there.
Taste is not a very good point upon which to mount a defense for the practice of murdering millions of helpless animals every year, but ease of access is a real concern. The first world can, in my belief, afford to move to a completely vegetarian diet. Economically, this would be difficult to stomach but it would be possible. But in shitty countries where there is a scarcity of food (not just meat) and animal products are the most nutritious available options, it would help for Western governments to invest in them agriculturally. Animal well-being isn't the only reason we should do this; Americans in particular enjoy a very good lifestyle on the whole, and it's about time they gave a slice of that to the people struggling to swallow their cakes of dirt. There's absolutely no reason children should be starving over eggs in India when they could be given enriched rice or soy or some other easily cultivated plant-based protein source. -
2018-02-21 at 11:01 PM UTC in We have a moral obligation to stop eating meatFor most people living in the first world, there is no good, rational defense to continue supporting the holocaust of animals. Discuss.
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2018-02-21 at 5:41 PM UTC in What does this pic make you feel?I think he looks very lumpy and kind of gross, but I do wish I had more muscle myself.
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2018-02-21 at 3:25 PM UTC in its 1030pm and im hngryI would rather see another holocaust than have one meal at Denny's
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2018-02-21 at 3:06 PM UTC in The next time the site goes down I will KILL MYSELFFuck off, old people should die
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2018-02-21 at 3:01 PM UTC in The next time the site goes down I will KILL MYSELFI'm not sure, but I won't allow anybody to have mine.
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2018-02-21 at 2:46 PM UTC in The next time the site goes down I will KILL MYSELFmy bean will be destroyed
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2018-02-21 at 4:33 AM UTC in why was the site down?Lanny has been fighting a silent war over the rights to the name of the site. Apparently, there is a negro aeronautical society that believes the concept somehow erodes their membership, and they have copyright lawyers who are working rather closely to make this an issue of race. Much of what we've written on the site is being carefully reviewed. By the time they get through the anti-Semitic material, there will be a multi-million dollar payoff to a cabal of anti-defamation attorneys coming right out of Lanny's pockets.
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2018-02-21 at 3:59 AM UTC in The next time the site goes down I will KILL MYSELFYes, the site was down and I cannot fucking take it. I am consulting a lawyer about how I should respond to this outage, but the next time it happens will be the last time.
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2018-02-21 at 3:46 AM UTC in The next time the site goes down I will KILL MYSELFHow could you do this shit to me Lanny? WHAT THE FUCK.
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2018-02-21 at 2:59 AM UTC in Post in this thread, and I'll give you a short Seinfeld scene that sums you up.give it to me god damn you
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2018-02-21 at 2:42 AM UTC in YOU heard it here first! NIS OUTAGE!!!My heart rate hasn't descended below 100 bpm from when the site went out until just a few minutes ago when it came back. Already I've sweated through four pairs of clothes and I've lost a pound. A POUND. I've been popping propranolol but it isn't doing anything to slow my heart rate. I seriously thought I was going to die by the end of the hour when the site went live.
God dammit, Lanny, you can't let this shit happen again. I nearly had a cardiac event over this shit. FUCK. -
2018-02-20 at 3:03 AM UTC in Pharmacists have it hard.Your pharmacist doesn't want you giving them money. Sweets are a great way to suck up, however.
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2018-02-20 at 12:18 AM UTC in structure-activity relationshipsI don't have a sophisticated understanding of pharmacokinetics, so this may be a silly question, but I'm curious: is there a way to block the nonpsychoactive serotonin pathway, allowing it to bind to the other?
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2018-02-20 at 12:12 AM UTC in MelatoninLol, when I worked in a pharmacy a doctor wrote up a prescription asking us to compound 300µg tablets for their patient, but my boss just had us point them in the direction of the OTC 3mg instead.
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2018-02-19 at 3 PM UTC in Meeting my gf's dadYou should ask him if he'd like to buy your daughter.
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2018-02-19 at 2:59 PM UTC in When reminiscing about Totse, why doesn't anyone ever bring up the South Park ep was based on us?
Originally posted by Speedy Parker The only thing that is plainly obvious is this. Having never accomplished anything in your life you want to believe that a little known and long forgotten website that you wasted your youth on has some impact on the real world. This way you can salvage what little self esteem you have.
Lol, I had less than 20 posts on Totse so I don't know who you're talking to. -
2018-02-19 at 4:12 AM UTC in Enter and stupidnoob
