I really need an explanation on this since people are not shutting up for months that EU is apparently putting insects in food for the people to be forced to buy and feed on like survivalists in jungle would? I know that EU is completely unhinged nazi hellhole and whatnot, but to this extent to feed themselves on bugs? I don’t think so.

Can somebody please tell me about this, they are not shutting up about it on social media for months?!

  • WithoutFurtherDelay@lemmygrad.ml
    21·
    1 year ago

    I care much more about the well being of humans than insects.

    There is no reason to care about a human being that provides you no benefit more than an animal, other than pure prejudice. Human beings do not have “greater moral value” or some insane shit like that. The only possible justification we could use to prioritize human beings is some variant of “might makes right” bullshit which is just fascist schlock and leaves no room for the human beings that aren’t “mighty”. Or some weird pseudo scientific argument that animals feel less pain than us or something, but everyone agrees that’s highly suspect anyways.

    Either all conscious life is sacred, none of it is, or the life that you care about or directly benefits you is sacred. So, it’s valid to care about humans more, but don’t pretend it’s an objectively correct belief, because there is no such thing in that field. I could claim that crickets are way more important than human beings and have about as much grounding as you as long as I legitimately believed that.

    Does it make more sense to prioritize human beings because we’re all human and want to be prioritized? Yeah, that makes sense. But hurting animals is still sus under that logic.

    • diegeticscream [all]@lemmygrad.ml
      3·
      1 year ago

      C’mon. I just said I don’t want to do this. I don’t want to have this argument.

      I’m familiar with the view, and I don’t find it convincing.

      Your view isn’t supported by any successful Marxists projects (to my knowledge), and is directly opposed by at least one (Juche).

      Either all conscious life is sacred, none of it is, or the life that you care about or directly benefits you is sacred. So, it’s valid to care about humans more, but don’t pretend it’s an objectively correct belief, because there is no such thing in that field. I could claim that crickets are way more important than human beings and have about as much grounding as you as long as I legitimately believed that.

      You are welcome to your religious beliefs, but I do not share them and do not see them as integral to Marxism.

      I, of course, find factory farming under capitalism to be abominably cruel. I don’t see individual actions as effective in opposing it.

      I would rip the throat out of a deer with my bare teeth, if I could.