And you assume vegans eat only vegetables? Huh? And I'm not sure I follow your reasoning...meat may be the least efficient thing to produce of all the...
So much wrong in so few sentences. Where to begin? For one, wheat, corn, meat, and milk products are subsidized by the government and that is why thos...
Being monocultural is one thing, and it can easily slip into the kind of thing white nationalism is, but it's different in some significant ways. Insi...
The burden of proof rests on you--there is nothing to suggest that the arable land used for animal feed is not equally usable for human food. Their wh...
Raw potatoes are dormant, not dead. Animals who can feel pain and value life shouldn't be harmed or killed based on those qualities. Same thing applie...
Yes we can afford it. And if the whole world miraculously turned vegan overnight, obviously we would care enough to find a way to fund these. But of c...
You're just all sorts of confused. I have not advocated for killing animals--you have. I'm advocating for not putting them in this world if all we're ...
I will concede that this is not an accurate portrayal of 100% of Christians, and that Christianity does not say they will let you do whatever you want...
I didn't say that question was nonsense. I said comparing existence to non-existence is nonsense. I said the question of whether life is worth living ...
Christianity focuses mostly on the next world in practice--it's about accepting Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior. Believing in God is the ticket t...
Racists, like everyone else are not evil. I don't usually recommend regular crime novels, but John Grisham's book The Chamber really makes a good case...
Funny story: I took a class in post-colonialism taught by a black Jamaican professor. When I told her about reading how race doesn't exist according t...
Well, I've always said that conservative so-called Christians nowadays would hate Jesus if he were around today--the ultimate dirty, long-haired, sand...
Do you call everything you simply can't counter a strawperson? Because I very directly was addressing your argument that it is better to live and suff...
If a person kills another human after administering a drug to make it painless, does that mean it is less wrong? Humans and other animals like cows, c...
"Nonsensical" is the only way to describe something that makes no sense. Talking about what is better or worse for non-existing entities makes no sens...
It is nonsensical to compare qualitatively non existence to existence. There is no individual for whom it is better or worse that he or she does not e...
Ummmm, it's like you can't process what I said. It's NOT a problem for vegans, because even IF we cared about plants, a vegan diet would be reducing t...
What exactly does the science show? It shows that plants have chemical reactions, and there is no evidence that they feel pain or can suffer. If you'r...
xD I gave up talking to Pseudonym a while ago--when it became clear that he would happily negate anything and everything he said, go in endless circle...
Exactly what it says-- you're getting defensive about an online discussion with strangers that is entirely theoretical and only can have an impact on ...
Jeff McMahan answers the question of whether giving animals a good life is sufficient to justify their killing. He basically says that you can't argue...
That's a poor analogy in a couple of ways. First of all, a horse's broken leg is the kind of thing that makes a horse's life miserable and often leads...
A painless death would be better than a painful one, sure. But that doesn't mean killing isn't causing harm. Regardless of pain level, it's still obvi...
It's not quite the same thing, but this reminds me of the story of how Dido bought the land that became Carthage by agreeing to buy as much land as sh...
I think you know as well as I do that we're not talking about insects in this discussion. Even though the word "animal" technically includes insects, ...
That's absurd and you know it. If this discussion weren't about food you'd never suggest that stepping on a halm of grass was the same as kicking a do...
No, I'm sorry, the same arguments do not apply. And it's kind of like you didn't read what I said. Even IF they did, you'd still be wrong to raise and...
Well, Bitter Crank is right. It's not required of any parent to subsidize a dependent child, but it is assumed that you would want to. But I'm still n...
For the sake of argument, let's assume plants have "feelings" and the ability to "suffer" (which, by the way, none of this research shows), veganism s...
I'm confused as to why you think parents are obligated in any way with Fafsa? For one, Fafsa stands for Free Application for Federal Student Aid. It's...
I understand what you meant :wink: I'm just quibbling with a couple of assumptions in that sentence--what makes someone a philosopher if not being phi...
That's an ad hominem if I ever saw one. Shakespeare was very philosophical. To be or not to be? You could say, he probably got it from somewhere, beca...
Yes, there is. Anyway, that's why I suggest that Planck units solve the paradox--space is not infinitely divisible. Kant explains in the Critique of P...
Peter SInger is a utilitarian. I personally think Tom Regan was better at making the case convincing. (Though they both have a lot of value to add to ...
Even if the net sum is finite, if it were infinitely divisible, you'd always have one more halfway point to reach. In fact, the paradox would damn us ...
Not sure what you're getting at? Maybe your math degree needed to be supplemented by some English classes so you could learn how to express yourself c...
Yes. Unless a number is given at which to stop. 2, 4, 6, 8, ... Implies all even numbers to infinity. 2, 4, 6, 8, ... , 200 Implies all even numbers u...
Partial sums only explains how theoretically in math you can have infinite points in finite space. It doesn't solve the paradox, rather it lends itsel...
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