Not in a great spot. My material needs are met, so don't worry about that. Just want to break out of the cycle I'm in of "oh hey, you have only a few hundred from this paycheck before you're negative again."

  • Maaskarpone [they/them]
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    2 years ago

    Your tone indicates you're not taking me seriously, when I expect a serious response requiring proper engagement from you on the issue of animal abuse. Why aren't you vegan? Please read on the principle of charity. Unironically, though, there is an animal holocaust; you are right. :)

          • pocket_tofu [she/her,fae/faer]
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            2 years ago

            Why do you care? You're clearly not asking in good faith. It's wrong to hurt nonhumans, and you should stop trying to justify it by using Jewish people like me as a prop

              • pocket_tofu [she/her,fae/faer]
                ·
                2 years ago

                It's called a loaded question. So have you, yes or no? If you don't say yes, I'll assume you're still beating your wife

                • Dingdangdog [he/him,comrade/them]
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                  2 years ago

                  This is just right wing deflection tactics. Defend your theory, I'm asking a basic question and you're just avoiding it.

                  I'll ask it again and explain my reasoning for asking it:

                  Do vegan beliefs in sentience go so far as to include arthropods, such as wasps, AND if so does that mean to you that the destruction of their nests count as genocide?

                  I am not trolling you. I am literally following on how this thread started, wherein you all told me arthropods were sentient.

                  This is engaging your theory, based on exactly what you said. Give me an answer to this and I'll leave it alone. Not some reddit post. Tell me, in your words, what your theory says about this question.

                  • pocket_tofu [she/her,fae/faer]
                    ·
                    2 years ago

                    This is just right wing deflection tactics.

                    You think me mockingly doing the thing you've continued to do to me even after I pointed it out repeatedly is right wing? Interesting

                    • Dingdangdog [he/him,comrade/them]
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                      2 years ago

                      I'm not mocking you. I'm literally asking you the same question on repeat. Either way I'm done, one of your comrades responded with an actual answer.

      • Maaskarpone [they/them]
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        2 years ago

        I think the systemic killing of all animals is genocide. The animal kingdom includes wasps, so yes, killing wasps is genocide.

        They are the same thing in terms of genocide. However, as clarification, would I more broadly call the oppressions the same thing in an imprecise way? Yes and no. Yes, because of the co-constitution between animal and human oppression, whose context, values, ideologies, socialised/codified social behaviours and social structure/material conditions are full of continuities. No, because they still have different contexts and have unique oppressions in their own ways. An imprecise answer to that question is analogous to someone saying racism and queerphobia are the same things, which is something I wouldn't claim. Everything needs to be looked at and explored in its unique entirety. We need to acknowledge both the similarities and the differences of the oppressions and consider their unique entireties in order to uproot their evils to our best extent.

          • Maaskarpone [they/them]
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            2 years ago

            No problem. You're welcome.

            Though, you do realise one of the reasons why the other person wasn't answering your question is because it's offensive to tokenise groups of people with a bad-faith question. At least, I wouldn't answer in their shoes. The user provided the perspectives of holocaust survivors or their family members. Please read the compiled perspectives, but more crucially please urgently change your behaviour to the animals according to vegan ethics. You don't need to know theory to know that killing innocent beings, our animal cousins, is wrong. You only need empathy and an empathetic (empathic?) response. You understand they suffer like us and want to live? And that their suffering at our hands and their desire to live are valuable for our decision-making? Then, we can act on that. The theory is an added treat, helping us to develop our understanding, but it is not crucial to make this change in behaviour. The theory can come after the switch, and can help develop your praxis.