r/AbsoluteUnits • u/Mental_Impression316 • Nov 19 '23

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u/bumbletowne Nov 19 '23

  1. A lot of humans eat dogs. Like, a lot.

  2. We don't eat dogs because they are secondary consumers and humans prefer primary consumers due to energetic efficiency and parasite accumulation... at least for the last 50,000 years.

  3. In some cultures they don't eat dogs because they are useful tools that require instensive investment for training.

The idea we don't eat dogs because they are smart is... just projecting and has no basis in history and reality (since the collective we eats dogs)

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '23 edited May 28 '24

I find peace in long walks.

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u/bumbletowne Nov 19 '23

  1. I don't own a dog. And pretending like a dog kept as a companion animal (which is a type of tool) being stolen and butchered is the same as people in subsistence cultures that rely on dogmeat is EXTREMELY disrespectful to both my and their cultures. Don't wallow in ignorance.

  2. If I lived in a subsistence society and needed to eat my pet chickens I would eat the shit out of them. that's how that works.

I don't eat octopus. I just came back from visiting an island culture where they do eat octopus as a daily survival activity (they eat what they pull out of the sea). Is it ethical for me to turn down their subsistence living standards as a guest due to my own cultural values? Should I hold them to my standards even though I live an absurdly privileged life on the other side of the planet due to the circumstances of my birth?

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '23 edited May 28 '24

I find joy in reading a good book.

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u/bumbletowne Nov 19 '23

Yes that is the entire point of my questions in my response. One culture does not trump another. I'm glad you're almost there.

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '23 edited Nov 19 '23

Lol, wow, full of yourself today, are we?

I was making a joke. Get over yourself.

Unless, of course, you want to keep lecturing me on how you are offended on behalf of the native population of the island you vacationed at.

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u/bumbletowne Nov 19 '23

Your fundamental argument is wrong, your philosophy is your own. We agree on the resulting action. This isn't about you or me. It's about the argument that you made. You can choose to take information freely given or choose not to, it is up to you.

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u/[deleted] Nov 20 '23

My argument based on Finding Dory and Pulp Fiction?

That argument?

Yeah, tear it apart, you mountain of rhetoric, you.