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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

want to see a westerner have a full on tantrum? Suggest to them that their actions are not always morally neutral

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The smug, always morally neutral easterners:

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

I hate these filthy Neutrals. With enemies you know where they stand but with Neutrals, who knows? It sickens me.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Look up the prevalence of veganism

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (3 children)

The smug, eternally morally superior vegan:

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

smug, eternally morally superior vegan Yay! me 🥰 also: 😏

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I mean, Vegans are morally superior, that's a solved question.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Can anyone downvoting this explain how vegans are not morally superior?

  • Not a vegan btw
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I would be very surprised. I am not even fully vegan myself, people just don't want to confront their own moral issues.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yes, they are, unless you can make the argument that animal suffering and environmental destruction are good things.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

being vegan doesn't do anything about those

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It reduces demand for meat, lowering production, ergo lowering environmental impact and animal suffering. Simple as.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It reduces demand for meat, lowering production

production increases every year.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Not as quickly if there were no Vegans. Veganism does lower demand.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

there is not any way to prove such a claim, as you cannot prove a counterfactual.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Are they just wasting money producing food they know isn't in demand? What are you on? You're goofy.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Thry certainly earn the smug reputation

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

This isn't about being smug or not. Veganism is morally superior as long as you consider that animals suffer for Human Consumption, envionmental impacts of animal products far outweigh vegan alternatives, and humans can get all of their nutrition from vegan sources.

The reason humans eat meat is for pleasure and profit, neither of which can be considered "morally superior" to the benefits of Veganism.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 month ago

They're better than you and it should be known.