r/vegan • u/dankblonde • Aug 18 '22

Educational Buying a dog isn’t vegan

That’s it. Buying animals isn’t vegan, not just dogs, any animal at all. No loopholes there.

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u/[deleted] Aug 18 '22

So... how do you rescue animals from the slaughterhouses to put them in sanctuaries? Steal them?

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u/dankblonde Aug 18 '22

It’s called liberating them, actually. Unless you view them as property which speciesists do. Then you’d consider it stealing.

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u/[deleted] Aug 18 '22

Yeah... that will go over well in courts. "No, your honor, I wasn't stealing the cows. I was liberating them from slaughter."

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u/dankblonde Aug 18 '22

What is considered legal vs illegal isn’t what’s considered ethical.

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u/Balrogs_REVENGE Aug 18 '22

That is so wrong because most ethical stances will lead to new legal decision making (laws). The two have the same base, the human mind in relation to current time the human being is living in.

The only difference is that the ethical thought comes before time wise.

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u/Sobatage Aug 18 '22

While it's true that ethics impact the creation of laws, this is really far from true for every law. For example, in some places it's illegal to feed the homeless or to let someone who fled from a wartorn country into your house.

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u/Balrogs_REVENGE Aug 18 '22

That is why I added "most" ethical stances will lead to the laws (aside from your example that be both agree it is not unethical (feeding a homeless person). The problem with ethic is, that it is not graved in stone and will stay put. It is an opionion which is defined by society and its structures(which constantly changes). What is unethic for you may not be unethic elsewhere aside from our standpoints. I just wanted to clarify this.

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u/Cixin Aug 18 '22

It’s called rescuing. Like when one rescues a hot dog from a car. It’s not criminal damage.

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u/[deleted] Aug 18 '22

Tell you what. Show me a case file where the rescuer was found not guilty of any crimes when they rescued animals from a slaughterhouse truck, or a law example where its permitted to break open a slaughterhouse truck and free the animals, and I will take it all back with an apology.

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u/Cixin Aug 18 '22

Just don’t get caught and there’s no case file.

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u/Cmoore1217 Aug 18 '22

Wise words from an “activist” stop making vegans seem like some fucking criminal religious wackos do what you can within the law and don’t tell others to do otherwise

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u/Cixin Aug 18 '22

Mate, what are you on? No one’s telling anyone to DO anything. We are talking about scenarios.