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Seriously, where are 99% of the life begins at conception people on the meat industry?

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[–] PapaStevesy@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

I'm still waiting for them to stop celebrating birthdays.

[–] alquicksilver@lemmy.world 92 points 2 days ago (10 children)

If you're really being serious, then the answer is that most (or, at least, the vocal majority) of those people don't even really care about living children. I don't see that type of person generally giving any more care to a non-human being than they would a human being, and they already don't care about people other than themselves.

"Pro-life" has always been a misnomer. More honest descriptions would be "anti-choice" or "pro-forced birth."

[–] cogman@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago

It's anti-woman.

The real true reason most people are against abortion isn't because they don't believe it's a necessity. It's because they are afraid that some woman won't be punished for having sex. Whether or not the fetus survives isn't the point, it's that someone has to be punished for enjoying life.

[–] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago

Pro-life

In their mind, is still just breeding more cheap disposable labor

[–] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 days ago

Serious in that they should stand up for non-human animals, but in the kind of way where you also know the answer as to why 99% aren't

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[–] DragonsInARoom@lemmy.world 32 points 2 days ago

One single HUMAN cell, everyone knows humans are above all animals

[–] PigStyle@lemmy.world 28 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Some of them explain this away with "Humans have souls, animals don't".

[–] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 26 points 2 days ago (4 children)

And yet many can be up in arms about dogs & cats being eaten in some regions despite that claim

[–] riwo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

dogs go to dog heaven, duh
of they got souls! /s

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[–] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Apparently that soul doesn't matter when trying to prevent it from dying from preventable diseases with vaccines and nurturing it with affordable education.

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[–] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Yeah but if babies were delicious we would eat them too

[–] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Is this implying you know for certain that human babies aren't? Maybe we should be a little concerned how you figured that one out

[–] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 21 points 2 days ago (1 children)

So I ate a baby big whoop wanna fight about it?

[–] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 days ago

Baby Big Whoop? Damn there's a whole product line now?

[–] zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I've got a modest proposal for you...

[–] Glytchrider@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 days ago

I wanted to say that but wasn't swift enough.

[–] stray@pawb.social 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm told humans taste like pork.

[–] KombatWombat@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Some cultures that actually have cannibalism refer to human flesh as "long pig" or similar because of the resemblance.

[–] OccultIconoclast@reddthat.com 10 points 2 days ago (21 children)

It's racism. They think human lives are more important than other races.

[–] pankuleczkapl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It is so prevalent that this type of bigotry actually has its own name: specieism

[–] v4ld1z@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

beat me to it (by only 11h :D)

[–] v4ld1z@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] lars@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They are pro-birth. They are absolutely not pro-life.

[–] celeste@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I think they're anti-woman.

[–] ookiiBoy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 2 days ago

Think? We fucking know.

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[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

But that's different!

Honestly though, is "but it's different" a proper informal fallacy?

[–] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 1 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

I think "but it's different" is actually just special pleading:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_pleading

@TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world

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