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"Pro-Life" Rule (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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

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[–] [email protected] 93 points 3 months 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."

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago

Pro-life

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

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months 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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[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

This is a great counterpoint, ill have to remember it next time I'm having a discussion about the subject.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I don't care what species it is

I have three requirements for meat:

It isn't human flesh
It isn't rotten
It's cooked properly

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (1 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Don't you know it's much more preferable for your child to die of a preventable illness than for them to get autism from vaccines which is totally a thing that happens?

/s of course

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

It's even worse. One of the contributing factors for autism is fine dust particles in pollution from fossil fuels. And the ones against vaccines are often also the ones for fossil fuels.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

When I infodump for 2 hours straight I can see why they would prefer if I died /s

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Yeah but if babies were delicious we would eat them too

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months 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

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm told humans taste like pork.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I think they're anti-woman.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

Think? We fucking know.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

That explains the obsession with cows' milk...

Anytime someone throws a fit about noncows milk being called milk, "Like, you know why they produce milk, right?"

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (21 children)

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

[–] pankuleczkapl 28 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Speciesism, but yes

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

The human race thinks they're the supreme race, better than the other races.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

But that's different!

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Not quite identical, but there are some that are close

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_incredulity

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_the_stone

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