I imagine most people kind of knew what happened in those camps but there was just enough distance between them and the actual suffering that they could ignore it. See the people calling for less immigration or sometimes actual deportation; those immigrants will suffer for it but the people calling for it will not see that suffering. See people eating animals; most could never put a live chicken in a blender or a pig in a gas chamber but since they are just far enough away from the act they don’t mind supporting it.

Because it’s a web browser that doesn’t even run natively on my platform

Non vegans do this by default; meat grows on others.

Regulation without public backing is not possible. You need people to show that it’s possible to live without burning fossil fuels or eating meat. If the government would just ban them there would be riots.

Well, I mean, companies don’t buy their own products.

Yea, since you called it vegetarianism but that might’ve been a spelling error

That doesn’t hold up. Doctors can’t do that to non-consenting others, and executioners can’t do that to innocent others. Animals do not consent to being killed nor can they be convicted murderers.

morally I agree with the sentiment

You should align your actions with your morals and go vegan

You think every slaughterhouse worker is a psychopath?

However much it’s abstracted away, a slaughterhouse worker still has to slit the animals throat.

In this day and age you can just go online and see what happens in slaughterhouses and see your “food” get gassed, lobotomized, stabbed, electrocuted or boiled alive so saying it’s okay because you didn’t know is just too naïve.

Note that vegetarianism is just a diet, not a stance against the exploitation of animals. (Eg hens are killed for eggs, baby cows are killed for milk and cows are killed for leather which are all usually still eaten/used by vegetarians)

The comment I replied to asks for several years of jail for whomever kills an animal. Why should slaughterhouse workers be exempt?

Agreed. Getting shot would almost certainly beat getting gassed or lobotomized before having your throat slit.

This kind of violence towards animals is strongly associated with psychopathy

Almost everyone kills animals for pleasure, are you saying only vegans are not psychopaths?

Edit: since I am getting downvoted let me clarify; all major dietician organizations say you can live healthily on a vegan diet and therefore the only reasons remaining for eating meat are culture, habit and taste which are pleasures, not necessities.

Read the Wheel of Time, talk to you in 3 years

Thank you for reminding me why i don’t watch TV. I don’t want to jump in in the middle of a conversation with zero context when we have on demand content everywhere online nowadays

Swift is a fantastic language and with c++ interop out of the box it’s the obvious choice.

The modern day slave trade

“but what about the slave traders?”

The gov will buy them out, same as back in the day.

Cute animals at the animal prison