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Re:Orca That Carried Dead Calf for Weeks Appears to Be in Mo... by shadow28 on Wednesday January 08, 2025 @10:12PM (#42641225)
Humans aren't always rational and that's okay, we're all human after all :)
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Re:Orca That Carried Dead Calf for Weeks Appears to Be in Mo... by lotsofpulp on Thursday January 09, 2025 @09:19AM (#42645775)
It’s considered not okay if we replace vegetarian with skin tone.
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Re:Orca That Carried Dead Calf for Weeks Appears to Be in Mo... by mrguyorama on Thursday January 09, 2025 @04:57PM (#42650211)
One is something you were born with and cannot change, and the other is a choice of lifestyle you make.

If you can't see the difference between those two scenarios, that's a huge problem.

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Re:Orca That Carried Dead Calf for Weeks Appears to Be in Mo... by lotsofpulp on Thursday January 09, 2025 @05:27PM (#42650493)
The cause or mutability the attribute has nothing to do with the reasonableness of ascribing a certain prior probability to the attribute.

Also, many hundreds of millions of people in the world are born into families that raise them as vegetarians, is that so dissimilar from being born with a certain skin tone?

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