Re:George Carlin's "Soft Language"
by Jensson on Sunday October 22, 2023 @12:21PM
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> Watching a bunch of live hatchlings get sucked into some grinder is not the same as watching a Halal killing or some tribal hunting ritual.
You aren't comparing like for like, most people who kill animals doesn't perform a ritual, they just kill it.
Also you can't compare a video trying to show something in a positive light "ritual killing" vs a video trying to show something in a negative light. If they showed you a video about a slaughter that went wrong, the animal is crying as the slaughterer ends it, blood everywhere, then people would feel very bad as well. Or if they showed you a slaughterer joking about as he was slaughtering animals, you probably would feel more as well. Those things are the reality of traditional killing, I don't see how it is any better than a machine doing it. The end result is the same.
The main difference is that we no longer need to train a lot of people to be killing machines like we did before.
Re:George Carlin's "Soft Language"
by ethanbond on Sunday October 22, 2023 @12:30PM
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The main difference is the scale of suffering that we are choosing to create because we simply prefer the flavor of meat over other sources of nutrients.
You aren't comparing like for like, most people who kill animals doesn't perform a ritual, they just kill it.
Also you can't compare a video trying to show something in a positive light "ritual killing" vs a video trying to show something in a negative light. If they showed you a video about a slaughter that went wrong, the animal is crying as the slaughterer ends it, blood everywhere, then people would feel very bad as well. Or if they showed you a slaughterer joking about as he was slaughtering animals, you probably would feel more as well. Those things are the reality of traditional killing, I don't see how it is any better than a machine doing it. The end result is the same.
The main difference is that we no longer need to train a lot of people to be killing machines like we did before.