It isn’t so much a front end as a privacy-enhancing proxy service. You can’t participate, you can only consume. If our governments are going to conduct their interactions with us on fucking Twitter, we need services like this. Or we need our states to stop neglecting our need for online infrastructure and punting to capital interests.

What moral code is that, that I am supposed to be promoting?

It is a philosophical argument, not a moral one, to argue that the animals we create are morally equivalent to the children we create. The animals we create have all the same moral qualities as the children we create. Any argument that applies to one then applies to the other. Your personal moral code can tell you what to do with that, but you don’t even need to have a moral code to recognize that the equivalence exists.

There are factual, not moral arguments that animals experience suffering the same way we do, using the same brain structures we use, and that they have experiences at all. There is no hint of morality in this argument.

It is a psychological and spiritual claim, not a moral claim, that engaging in violence and cruelty is harmful to us.

Do you have a logical argument that contradicts anything I said? Because that would have been a much better place to start. The suggestion by making this post that I am trying to “enforce” my personal moral system on others is rather rude.

Carefully cultivated willful ignorance. In much the same way that, “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it," (Upton Sinclair) it is difficult to get a compassionate person to exercise their empathy and common sense when there is murder on their plate.

The animals we create are morally equivalent to our own children and are owed the same unconditional love and protection. The experiences of animals are real and matter. Their suffering is identical in nature to your own. It harms us when we take pleasure in cruelty and violence.

Canned pulses are convenient but you can’t beat dry for price and quality! Obviously much less packaging and other waste, also

Behaving in a way that is ethical and preserves good health is completely alienating in our sick and cruel society.

I cut it on the winter solstice. I need something to get me through.

I cut my own hair once a year and then watch it change with the seasons

at least you take out innocent bystanders with you

Never saw him before. Sometimes I think I see him around town but I can’t be sure.

Sucker punched by a stranger on the street ranting that I was a police informant. Smashed me right in the forehead so hard everything went dark for a minute, and when I woke up he was straddling my chest and punching my face and throat. I don’t go out in public a lot anymore.

I think they don’t struggle with the cognitive dissonance unless you really rub their nose in it, because there is hundreds of years of culture dedicated to finding the psychological tricks and mythology that allow them to relieve the tension without alleviating the cause.

Or they turn around and do shit like this

Compassion and empathy for animals. Yeah, they say they like it if you don’t have any follow-up questions, but things go downhill real fuckin’ fast after that.

closeted liberal, seems to be the consensus opinion. there’s a lot of social pressure to adopt an identity even if it doesn’t reflect your actual values.

SUPERZAPPER RECHARGE

YOU’RE SUCKED INTO THE HOLE IN A DIRECTION THAT ISN’T DOWN, BUT NEITHER IS IT ONE OF THE OTHER DIRECTIONS WITH WHICH YOU’RE FAMILIAR.

YOU ARE A DIRTY DIRTY SHISNO. HA HA HA.

VIDEO GAMES CAN NEVER BE ART!!!

Right? It’s like people want to be forced at gunpoint to do the things they know they SHOULD be doing now. What the fuck??