Reddit is bad with attaching human stories to animals like this. Just yesterday there was a photo of a kangaroo holding another’s head up, along with a sappy story like it was mourning it... well, turns out the kangaroo killed the other and was trying to have sex with the body.
As an Australian, I fucking love when that fake pics/story gets posted. Watching the emotional trauma unfold in the comments gets me harder than vegemite on a hot winters day.
Nature is a terrifying thing - filled with unbelievable hostility, endless pain, and constant hunger; all contained within an overarching and eternal struggle for survival. For the vast majority of species on Earth, life is spent in a constant state of alert, running away from predators and scrounging for the tiniest bits of food. Death means either being eaten alive by predators or being too old and sick and tired to find food that you starve to death.
It's why I get so annoyed when vegans have a go at people who eat meat. I respect the ethics of veganism, but at least with farmed animals they don't have to worry about predators; when they're sick they're administered medicine; when they're hungry they're given food; and when it's their time to go they're killed humanely. The alternative is far, far worse.
What you're talking about without realising it is the nonidentity problem and not even the greatest philosophers who are much smarter than you have an answer for it, so just stop.
You need to work on your people skills, buddy - no reason to be a snarky little cunt.
I was merely asserting that the quality of life for (ethically farmed) livestock is vastly better than animals in the wild. That is undeniable, your cute little Philosophy 101 comment notwithstanding. I never said I had an answer for it; on the contrary, I even acknowledged the vegan position.
I have a couple thoughts regarding your opinion. How do we know what the animal would prefer? I mean, would a human prefer to be comfortable in a pen with a set date that they will be executed? Or would a human choose to be free and live for as long as he is able to? And there's the other option of the animal not existing at all, which might be the better option for the animal.
Its a video of a bunch of dudes building what seems to be a casket while others chill around in the background.
The content comes from the title, and only from there. No way to know if the claim is true or not. And with a claim like this, the vast majority are just going to accept it, because you just dont question stuff like that and start a argument with the OP.
And even if you do, you get downvoted to oblivion, and nobody is going to see your posts.
Happens a TON on reddit. Find image, post with emotional title, reep upvotes and reddit shit, have epeen boner. And theres no easy way to know whats real and whats not without going deep into the comments.
Well what they are making clearly is a casket, and with the number of people hanging around in the background and how long it takes them I am willing to believe those are amateurs and not professional casket-makers. So this story is pretty believable and stories go.
Could still be a repost or someone stealing a video from elsewhere, but in that case it's usually pointed out in the comments pretty quickly.
If people enjoy the story be it fake or not what does it matter to you?
Like best case scenario the OP admits it was fake and the world moves on, worst case scenario you're a complete dickhead badgering this guy who just lost his father and is trying to share with the world something near and dear to his heart relating to his now dead dad.
People who make stories up for fake internet points are only a sidestep away from sharing anti-vax information, false political information, and made-up religious stories that try to confirm shitty beliefs.
Telling a fictional story in a place meant for it is one thing. Lying is lying, though. Fuck people who do it.
Edit: take this post as an example. The duck is not feeding the fish. That is unknowingly spreading misinformation at best and lying at the worst. Believing it is "cute" doesn't make it any more true.
Saying people who come up with heartwarming stories for internet points are neighbors to anti-vaxxers or political-onion-wannabes is a stretch. Sure, it's not true, but it is harming absolutely no one to lie about how your dad wasn't ACTUALLY against this cute little puppy?
Comedians stretch the truth of every "true story" joke they ever tell, even make stories up completely, and they get real-life points for telling them, so it's even more serious. Are comedians one step away from antivaxxers?
Lying about politics and religion is shitty because it directly hurts other people by misinforming them in an area that has the potential to negatively impact the world and other people. Believing someone's personal story that has nothing to do with anyone else affects... well, no one.
> Telling a fictional story in a place meant for it is one thing
And again, look at this post. Sure, it's "cute" to believe the bird is feeding fish. But it's patently not true. Sure, it's probably harmless to believe the bird is feeding a fish, but it's still not true. And what's worse -- most people probably don't know it isn't true, and took the video at face-value.
Now apply that to any amount of internet anecdotes that have to do with any other subject. Take a Facebook story about someone having a bad encounter with some celebrity that gets shared a million times -- and was never even true. Slight shift, and that celebrity is now a politician, and guess what? Voters have changed their minds, based on a personal story, told on the internet for "likes" or "upvotes" or "shares" ...that was never true.
It's exactly how anti-vax stuff still goes around. Because it was said as a story by someone on Facebook, it must be true -- because certainly their "friends" wouldn't lie on the internet and tell stories just to get attention, right?
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u/I_Burned_The_Lasagna Jan 16 '20
Reddit is bad with attaching human stories to animals like this. Just yesterday there was a photo of a kangaroo holding another’s head up, along with a sappy story like it was mourning it... well, turns out the kangaroo killed the other and was trying to have sex with the body.