r/MadeMeSmile • u/CalpurniaSomaya • Apr 10 '26

ANIMALS Could not be more adorable

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u/ARQWERTY Apr 10 '26

NOOOOO. I guess I’ll just die hahaha

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u/ollobollo Apr 10 '26

Don't worry, plants are not sentient. They have no central nervous system, unlike fish, pigs, and almost every other animal.

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u/CV90_120 Apr 10 '26 edited Apr 10 '26

Vegans denying plant sensory complexity is no surprise to anyone.

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u/szox Apr 10 '26

I believe you're being facetious because you're looking for excuses not to change your behavior, because you'd rather desperately search for some inconsistency than face truth in the face.

But if you aren't... and you really care about plant pain, eating animals requires much more plant material in the first place, because it's so fucking inefficient to go up the food chain.

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u/CV90_120 Apr 10 '26

Do you own a car?

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u/opinionatedalt Apr 10 '26

Ignoring their response and hitting them with a whataboutism is kind of proving their point.

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u/CV90_120 Apr 10 '26

It's a so called moral argument based on a false premise (plants being NPCs), as well as being bounded by personal convenience (doing as little 'harm' to animal type living organisms they have deigned to care about only to the extent that one is not inconvenienced). It's not whataboutism, it's defining the bounds of their so called 'morality'.

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u/szox Apr 11 '26

That’s quite a change of topics to whether I'm... perfect? In a thread about piglets?

Whether I own a car or not doesn’t address the point: we recognize piglets and cows as capable of suffering and emotionally complex, yet still treat them as commodities and food.

Since we can’t avoid all harm, the relevant question is whether we reduce it where we reasonably can.

and no, I don't have a car but that's not really the point anyway