• Borger@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    23 hours ago

    Agree with the general message, but constructing an exaggerated character that is easy to criticise by design does not equate to winning any kind of real argument.

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      18 hours ago

      Right? This kind of shit is why people don’t like vegans. Even if it’s not representative of the entire group, I feel like 4/5 of the time I hear vegan talking points, it’s this kind of wild nonsense.

      It’s like how evangelical Christians give the whole religion a bad name. It’s fine to believe what you believe, but vilifying others for not believing the same thing is gross, ass-backwards propaganda at best.

      • GreatWhite_Shark_EarthAndBeingsRightsPerson@piefed.social
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        16 hours ago

        Every belief has an effect, what effect does one-society of ones want to have?
        Your beliefs effect your behaviors,

        The problems with that are far, far & far too many of our species NEVER critically think about what they believe & it’s past-present-future effects & how it is applied. Just because what your family-class-area/community-town-city-state/providence-country believes something, does not mean one should believe it. Do the HONEST & CRITICAL examination of everything presented to one.

        I will always prefer to be alone over just believing in violencing-harming-killing-torturing.

        It is how religions violenced-harmed-killed-tortured unimaginable amount of our species-animals & Etc… Think about this, even religions that claim to be peaceful religions, example Buddhism-Quakers, have fought or contributed to mobs’-govs.’ violence-harms-tortures-wars. I was shocked when I first discovered Buddhas were actually violencing-harming-killing-torturing other people. & why are they doing this, because of religious differences. You want to talk about animals & Etc. holocaust, it is a holocaust that never ended. That is not to say, it is just one-reason, nothing is a island upon itself, religion. It is just point-out that a religion that their beliefs have result from, through & continue in the violence-harm-torture-killing of other people, animals & Etc…

        I believe that all our minds are the most powerful individual things (working together even more powerful & working with all Beings’ minds is most possible power) there is outside of things like outer space forces & Earth forces, can never control but make worse or better. With that I understand belief in no religion & all that entails has also resulted violences-harms-tortures-wars. Just a lot less, than religions!

        Like my other reply there many reasons that are intersectionally intertwined.

        When I use any version of violence-harm-kill-torture, I include at least mental (if you like to add spiritual, than so be it) & physical.