I am Ganesh, an Indian atheist and I don't eat beef. It's not like that I have a religious reason to do that, but after all those years seeing cows as peaceful animals and playing and growing up with them in a village, I doubt if I ever will be able to eat beef. I wasn't raised very religious, I didn't go to temple everyday and read Gita every evening unlike most muslims who are somewhat serious about their religion, my family has this watered down religion (which has it's advantages).
But yeah, not eating beef is a moral issue I deal with. I mean, I don't care that I don't eat beef, but the fact that I eat pork and chicken but not beef seems to me to be weird. So, is there any religious practice that you guys follow to this day?
edit: I like religious music, religious temples (Churches, Gurudwara's, Temples & Mosques in Iran), religious paintings and art sometimes. I know for a fact that the only art you could produce is those days was indeed religious and the greatest artists needed to make something religious to be funded, that we will never know what those artists would have produced in the absence of religion, but yeah, religious art is good nonetheless.
Yes you can.
don't worry, we indians eat the lower meat per capita in the world. I don't eat meat once a week, it's more like, once every month
Fyi the Hexbear code says if you don’t want to have this debate you just need to say “disengage” and the person is supposed to respect your boundary.
I don’t know if people know that or not.
Not the person you were replying to, but thanks for the tip. Is this code collated together somewhere?
i think hammurabi wrote it
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Yes I do. You do not need to eat animals.
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I sure can. You do not need to eat animals. If you would like to make the ridiculous, extraordinary claim that you do need to eat animals, please provide evidence.
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Yes I do.
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Incorrect.
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Really stretching the definition of "need" here.
Okay, so we're patronizing then. So what?
Thanks for the tone policing, but you aren't making anything like a point.
It's incredibly unlikely that they "need" meat. I do know that they need to stop killing sentient beings for their taste pleasure.
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You wouldn't believe me if I said I "need" a monster truck to commute to my desk job. There's a vanishingly small number of people who "need" to eat meat, and certainly not someone who says they need it because "I love it". If they had a genuine necessity they would have led with that.
Way to almost get it.
No, I didn't "attempt to refute it" because I don't know what the fuck you're saying.
Are you secretly one of our vegan posters trying to be as insufferable as possible to make anti-vegans look bad? If so you're doing an incredible job
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