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racism sexism speciesism by ThinkVegan.
Speciesism-Discrimination due to specie of belonging:

Speciesism is the discrimination*1 of someone’s*2 interests due to his/her specie of belonging*3.

1*-Discrimination (moral discrimination): Not weighing someone’s interest fairly for arbitrary reasons (sex, specie, race, type/degree of intelligent etc.)

Normally non-human animals are discriminated using two reasons as an excuse;
A-The fact that non-human animals don’t belong to our specie, implies they don’t deserve equal consideration: According to this we could discriminate human animals (for example) simply because they don’t belong to a certain group (skin colour, gender…) but doing this is wrong (just as discriminating due to specie is) because the group we belong to doesn’t determine our interest *2 in living and avoiding pain.

B-The fact that they lack certain capacities justifies their discrimination:
What this argument usually hides is a simple discrimination due to the specie of belonging, because human animals lacking these characteristics are usually considered morally.
If this weren’t the case and someone held that our cognitive capacities do determine the respect someone deserves (discriminating as a consequence some human animals such as babies and Alzheimer victims, etc.), the thruth is that if we are affected by suffering and pleasure it is due to our capacity to feel, not because of our intelligence, linguistic capacities etc. (although these can influence on the amount of suffering we experiment, they are not necessary to feel pain and wellbeing).
Animals (human and non-human one’s) have interest in life and in not suffering because they are aware of their experiences.

2*-Interests: Any individual with a nervous system and aware of it’s sensations has the capacity to experiment what happens in his/her life, and in consequence has interests that can be discriminated.
Those organisms lacking such capacity do not have interests, because they can in no way experiment subjective sensations (there is no “mind” that perceives “things”) and therefore cannot be discriminated morally.

Often humans respect some non-human animals (usually dogs and cats), although they would continue to be speciesist if they didn’t consider equally other animals such as cows, tunas, pigs etc.
Although I must add that although many humans do feel empathy for some non-human animals, it is probably adventurous to say they consider them their equals, and a proof of this is that these animals are usually bought, sold...this meaning, used in other ways.

3*Specie: A specie is a taxonomic group used to classify those who share a series of common characteristics. A specie does not have interests, only those who form the species do, and therefore it is these individuals who suffer the consequences of discrimination.

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Especismo - Discriminación en función de la especie:


Especismo es la discriminación*1 de los intereses*2 de un individuo por especie*3.


1*-Discriminar (léase discriminar moralmente):No darle el peso justo a los intereses de alguien en función de características arbitrarias (sexo, especie, raza, tipo/grado de inteligencia etc.)

A pesar de qué existen diferentes tipos de especismo, es decir hay animales no humanos cuyos intereses son priorizados con respecto a otras/os (tal es el caso de los perros y gatos).
Normalmente se discrimina a los demás animales con respecto a los humanos - especismo antropocéntrico- y esto se hace habitualmente en base a dos argumentos:

A-No pertenecen al grupo humano, por tanto, no merecen ser considerados igualitariamente: Según esto, podríamos discriminar a algunas/os humanas/os (por poner un ejemplo) simplemente por no pertenecer a un detrminado "grupo" (raza, clase social etc) Pero si hacer esto es injusto (al igual que lo es discriminar en base a la especie), es debido a que el grupo en el que somos clasificdos no determina nuestro interés*2 en vivir y en hacerlo sin sufrimiento.

B-Al carecer de determinadas capacidades cognitivas no merecen ser considerados iguales:
Lo que realmente esconde este argumento la mayor parte de las veces es una simple discriminación por la especie de pertenencia, ya que los humanos carentes de dichas capacidades en cambio, sí suelen ser considerados merecedores de respeto.
Si no fuera así, y se sostuviera que nuestras capacidades cognitivas determinan el respeto que merece un individuo (discriminando en consecuencia a algunos animales humanos como los bebés, enfermos de Alzheimer, etc.), cabría decir que si nos vemos afectados por el sufrimiento y el disfrute es por nuestra capacidad para sentir, no por nuestro tipo o grado de inteligencia, habilidades lingüísticas, etc. (aunque éstas sí pueden influir en la cantidad de sufrimiento o disfrute que experimentamos, no son necesarias para experimentar dichas sensaciones).
Los animales (tanto los humanos como los no humanos) tenemos interés en vivir y en no sufrir principalmente porque somos conscientes de nuestras sensaciones.


2*-Intereses: Todo individuo con sistema nervioso, consciente de sus sensaciones posee la capacidad de sufrir y disfrutar, y en consecuencia, tiene intereses que pueden ser discriminados.
Aquellos organismos carentes de dicha capacidad no tienen intereses ya que no experimentan sensaciones subjetivas (no existe una "mente" que perciba "cosas") y por lo tanto, no pueden ser discriminados moralmente.

A pesar de que hay humanas/os que sí parecen respetar los intereses de algunos animales no humanos (normalmente perros o gatos), dichos humanos seguirían siendo especistas si no incluyeran bajo el paraguas de la consideración igualitaria a otros animales con los que no conviven o no pertenecen a alguna especie que consideren merecedora de cierta consideración, como suele ocurrir con las vacas, cerdos, atunes, etc.
Aunque a esto hay de añadir que a pesar de que muchas/os humanas/os sienten cierta empatía por otros animales, es aventurado afirmar que les consideran iguales, y una prueba de ello es que estos animales suelen ser comprados, vendidos, regalados...en definitiva, utilizados de otra forma.


3*Especie: Una especie es un grupo taxonómico en el que se clasifica a quienes reúnen una serie de características comunes, pero la especie en sí no siente ni posee intereses, sino que son los individuos que forman ésta los que son discriminados y se ven afectados por ello.

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VeganAlex [deleted] says:

could it be any clearer? Non human animals are not resources! go vegan!
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longwayround  Pro User  says:

Er... no. Racism is not speciesism. That sort of muddled thinking actually makes one less willing to seriously consider veganism.

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Rev. Xanatos Satanicos Bombasticos (ClintJCL)  Pro User  says:

Denying the circle of life using holier-than-though platitudes is laughably naive.
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Tarky7  Pro User  says:



This is worthy of the Master Sword of Greatness!

You must add your picture to the Master Sword of Greatness grou!
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M.K... says:

it's true, all produce needless exploitation based on a sense of superiority. we have enough meat alternatives to not torture and slaughter animals, and animal testing has been found to be useless by several notable scientists; how can we possibly justify these practices? :(
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Vegan Butterfly  Pro User  says:

Good pic.
Might does NOT make right, no matter the race, gender, age or species.
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quirky_yorkie says:

I respect your position.
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Lips Mahony says:

Vanity: (n) The quality or condition of being vain. Excessive pride in one's appearance or accomplishments; conceit.

Race is a vanity. Stop identifying by racial characteristics and learn the true measure of your worth as a unique INDIVIDUAL.
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wisplike84 says:

isn't that in the wrong order? :P Awesome picture anyways!!! woo
Posted 23 months ago. ( permalink )

RachelDeet [deleted] says:

I respect your standpoint, but I think your priorities are severely skewed.

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Vegan Butterfly  Pro User  says:

Why? Sentience is sentience, pain is pain. Gender, race, species, age, IQ, sexual preference, height, weight...all these things are irrelevant. Exploitation, unnecessary pain and suffering....it is ALWAYS wrong.
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Rev. Xanatos Satanicos Bombasticos (ClintJCL)  Pro User  says:

Sexism applies to 50%, usually.

Racism usually applies to a much smaller %.

They should be in order of %age.
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foreignobsessed says:

Please participate in my poll for my students. : )
Merci
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D-VERSO  Pro User  says:

Ciao, sono amministratore di un gruppo chiamato DVERSO. Ci farebbe piacere aggiungere l’elemento al gruppo.
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Vegan sunflower [deleted] says:

Peta is the worst exploiters of women and animals

Their pro-"happy" meat and their " i rather go naked" posing in playboy is as exploitive as you can ever get

A video I made

www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TlQkjuNoUY
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cristoaragon says:

Hola soy el administrador del grupo, me gustaría que agregases tu foto y todas las relativas a derechos humanos en el nuevo grupo
DENUNCIANDO


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pattinsons-sweetheart says:

YAY! BITE ME, I'M VEGAN!

www.peta2.com/
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Rev. Xanatos Satanicos Bombasticos (ClintJCL)  Pro User  says:

Bite me back. What's a matter? I'm meat? Can't bite me back? That's too bad. When the apocalypse comes, I"ll be all the food left!
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jonathan mcintosh  Pro User  says:

This ad is disgusting and offensive. Plus I would say the poster is actually both racist and sexist because it equates women and people of color with animals. Which is a classic tool of dehumanization used in patriarchy and white supremacy. One of the many reasons why veganism often falling inline with oppressive systems.
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Vegan Butterfly  Pro User  says:

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Animal Rights and Liberation, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
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Vegan Butterfly  Pro User  says:

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Speciesism, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
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jonathan mcintosh  Pro User  says:

VeganButterfly: Your comments, though perhaps unintentional, are horrifying and revile more than anything that you have no understanding of patriarchy and white supremacy as oppressive institutions and how they function in our society. If you were serious about opposing sexism and racism you would not say or support these comparisons (especially considering the historical context). Again this is not a disagreement about animal rights per se but rather about the offensive comparisons that unfortunately gives vegans a bad name. I would challenge you to read the article "Animal Whites" by anti-racist activist Tim Wise which deals with this issue brilliantly.
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jonathan mcintosh  Pro User  says:

I agree about PETA being sexist and disgusting. If you will look all I said was that comparing the oppression of people on color and women in society to the way animals are used and treated is deeply offensive and oppressive. There is a long and sad tradition of slavery, ownership and degradation in which both these groups have been treated and thought of as animals as a way of dehumanizing these people. If you continue your privileged and childish comparisons you will not only be disrespecting the legacy of that sad history but you will be actually perpetuating it. Far from being part of a movement to abolish racism and sexism your comparisons continue those traditions as well as make your own movement for animal rights smaller and less effective. It proves to me, and a lot of other people, that you are not really serious about anything you say you advocate. End of story.
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Vegan Butterfly  Pro User  says:

I highly recommend this page:
www.ara.org.au/index.php/Speciesism/speciesis m.html

I could never explain it better. It's about speciesism and how it and other forms of oppression are interweaving.
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smiteme  Pro User  says:

There is a long and sad tradition of slavery, ownership and degradation in which both these groups have been treated and thought of as animals as a way of dehumanizing these people.

As anti-speciesists don't believe that non-human animals are "less than" human animals, comparing the oppression of non-human animals to that of different groups of humans isn't meant to "dehumanize" anyone. Certainly, these comparisons can be made in a racist, sexist, xenophobic, homophobic, etc. manner (just look to PETA for examples of each), but such comparisons are not de facto "ist." It's only an insult to compare human suffering to animal suffering (or humans to animals) if you view animals as inferior to humans. Which, clearly, Think Vegan and Vegan Butterfly do not.

I say this as a woman, a feminist, a veg*n, and an activist who views ALL forms of oppression as intertwined.
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Rev. Xanatos Satanicos Bombasticos (ClintJCL)  Pro User  says:

Vegan Butterfly, you are noble in your cause, but sad in your folly.

"Non-humans weren't made for humans anymore than black people were made for whites, or women for men."

So why do other animals eat other animals, if they weren't "made for other animals"? They were. It's a food cycle. Humans would never have evolved without meat-on-meat violence. We're a mechanism and part of nature as much as the bacteria that feeds off our dead skin -- ALSO MEAT.

You are so naive. Like it or not, you are an animal too.

And like it or not, the smarter you are, the worse your suffering hurts. If you smack an animal, it wont generally grow an inferiority complex like a bullied person (like the Virginia Tech Shooter) because they don't have complicated psyches and don't necessarily take offense.

OF COURSE they suffer..

The whole basis of vegetarianism is that it's mean to make animals suffer, because they experience the suffering and plants don't.

That makes YOU a "consciousness-ist". You think that those of us that do not possess a conscious (all plants) are here for those of us who DO possess a consciousness (from bunny rabbit to kitty cat to cow human).

Did you ever stop to think that eating plants is STILL killing, is STILL life feeding on life? That your line is simply drawn in a different place, but you are willing to subsist on the murder of other living beans just as much as any meat eater?

And by your own logic, the more consciousness a creature has, the more it suffers. Plants don't suffer. Humans suffer the most. A 5 year old cow is not going to suffer as much in its death as a 35-year-old human that's killed in front of it's family, who will all miss their loved ones. Animals don't have deep love [oh, they can love their owners, but it's not deep like human love - they're not going to care about anniversaries] and emotions -- not because they are incapable, but because their consciousness is not as complex.

By your own logic, plants don't suffer via lack of consciousness.

Guess who's suffering the most? The thousands of human beings who don't have clean drinking water; who are in wars; who are slaves (there are more HUMAN SLAVES on this planet right now than at ANY POINT IN HISTORY); who don't have freedom.

If you really want to stop suffering, you'd work on human issues first. Hungry people are always going to eat meat, and most of the world is hungry because people like you would rather focus on the symptoms of the problems (meat eaters) rather than the cause of the problems (starving people on this planet who will eat ANYTHING rather than die. Find me a vegetarian with a distended stomach from hunger. Can't? Didn't think so.).

And you're NEVER EVER going to win your fight, not until synthetic plants are grown which can feed the entire planet. Then maybe. But guess what? Instead of going into science and working on solving mankind's problems, you are posting flickr images instead.

Good job pretending that you make a difference. The only way to fix the problems you want fixing is to go into a science field and help develop the world to be a better place. You're never going to be able to stop man, a product of nature, from acting like nature.

Funny thing is, animals lover often justify a lion killing a human as "he was just acting in his nature". Yet these same people don't see that humans are a part of nature acting in their nature as well. You can't protest out someone's nature.

Fix the planet and you'll have less suffering animals. Continue to complain here and you're just another sheep. Which will get eaten by somebody hungry - just not you.
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Rev. Xanatos Satanicos Bombasticos (ClintJCL)  Pro User  says:

I meant "living beings", not "living beans". But my point stands. Beans are living beings too!
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jonathan mcintosh  Pro User  says:

Vegan Butterfly: I think I have been very clear, but I will try one more time to explain why this particular comparison of animal oppression to race and gender oppressions is both historically offensive and offensive today.

I'll use race this time for clarity. As you must know, Western imperialists first from Europe and than later from the USA plundered the world's resources. They also stole, tortured, used and enslaved human beings all over the world.

To accomplish this they used the comparison of people of color to animals. They thought of and talked about these people as animals. This was (and is) a way of degrading and dehumanizing people to make their oppression acceptable and palatable. They said "these people are no different from cattle or dogs therefore they should have no rights and should be used and treated in the same way". And this disgusting sentiment is alive and well in modern society in the form of white supremacist thought, just watch Lou Dobbs and his hateful dehumanizing talk about immigrants.

Now you come along with your western and mostly white animal liberation movement and say something like "Yes racism and the oppression of people of color IS in fact no different than that of cattle or dogs etc" So you are using the same exact comparison as white supremacy has used to oppress people of color, only you ignore the historical context and legacy saying its a positive comparison.

If you can't see how absurd and offensive that is, than you are hopelessly out of touch with reality, mindbogglingly insensitive and also participating in this sad tradition. So it is not surprising that your movement remains small and overwhelmingly white.
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Vegan Butterfly  Pro User  says:

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Animal Rights, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
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Vegan Butterfly  Pro User  says:

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Animals Are Not Ours to Wear, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
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jonathan mcintosh  Pro User  says:

Since Vegan Butterfly is obviously suffering from some sort of mental illness and is not interested in logic, history, anti-oppression or science. And since Vegan Butterfly also persists in delusional mystical thinking - here are a few points for the rest of the people viewing this disturbing image.

For those interested in the scientific stand point there are major cognitive abilities that make humans unique on earth. While there are other things that both humans and some other animals share.

Marc Hauser, professor of psychology, biological anthropology, and organismic and evolutionary biology in Harvard's Arts and Sciences lists four novel components that make human thought unique and show that humans have “floodlight” cognition as opposed to “laser beam” intelligence found in animals.

1) The ability to combine and recombine different types of information and knowledge in order to gain new understanding.

2) to apply the same “rule” or solution to one problem to a different and new situation.

3) To create and easily understand symbolic representations of computation and sensory input.

4) To detach modes of thought from raw sensory and perceptual input.
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Rev. Xanatos Satanicos Bombasticos (ClintJCL)  Pro User  says:

"So I guess you support humans abusing and killing other humans, cannibalism, rape, and theft since non-humans do these things all the time."

Nice slipperly slope argument, but no. Rape and theft don't keep you from dying. Eating does. You're comparing things necessary to survival to things that aren't. Apples and oranges.

"**Actually many scientists now believe the introduction of STARCH in our diet is what really aided our evolution."

I'm not reading your link because you have no point. There is no single factor in evolution; the entire world comes into play. And we evolved from a long line of carnivores and omnivores. So my statement is indeed true: We could not have gotten where we are now by eating meat. NONE of the omnivores today could have.

"So then you must be against laws, and a moral society that rejects many natural acts such as (in legal terms) murder, rape, child abuse, child abandonment, cannibalism, theft, and indecent exposure"

Did you forget you just tried to use that slippery slope argument 2 paragraphs ago, or do you just like typing redundant paragraphs? You might want to take the "knowledge and reason" philosophy class offered at universities, so you can understand the illogic of logical fallacies.

"If you are smart enough to KNOW BETTER, then you shouldn't cause unnecessary pain and suffering to others, and you shouldn't exploit and enslave others for your own benefit."

I'm smart enough to know better than idealists like you, who think there is a such thing as a suffering-free world. Every second you whine on flickr you could be making a real difference in the real world. You're not going win this war via ideology and propaganda. If you really want something done right, you need to do it yourself. Go out there and promote some really tasty vegetables. People are now genetically engineering in their garages (authorites are scared) - go figure out how to engineer a plant that is as tasty as meat.

But I hate to break the news to you -- plants suffer too.

There's even a species of tree that, when attacked(bark/flowers eaten and such), sends a messages to other species of the same tree. They then start producing a poison so that THEY don't get eaten.

"well it's obvious you've never worked an animal shelter. Abuse can cause permanent emotional and psychological damage to a non-human, very similar, though not identical, to a human."

Actually, I firmly believe animal shelters kill pets by being snobby about who they give them too. The people running them are such idealists that they'd rather put the surplus cats to sleep when they run out of space, than give them to somebody who doesn't want a frickin' home inspection (which is ridiculous - do the authorities inspect my home to have a human baby? NO.)

And anyway, I said "smack" not "abuse". But I'm sure bleeding-heart idealists like you see no difference in the two. You probably want to call the police when a mom spanks a kid that's bad.

Hate to say it, but cats specifically respond well to violence (small scale, not abuse or anything that causes injury) because they typically play and scratch with each other. It's their nature to bite each other in the face (my 2 cats jump higher than a pool table when they play with each other -- collectively they have more energy than a large dog), scratch each other, and "test boundaries" which each other. Sometimes they play too hard, then the one whines, or gets mad, fights back, and the other learns from this. The lack a true language.

Anyway, I finally got my cat to stop attacking and biting me. And it wasn't by being nice to him. It was be retaliating. Now he's incredibly sweet and rubs up on me. But I had to assume alpha stance with him -- he's a 10 lb half Maine Coone and he's only 9 months old and I'm already actually a bit scared of him -- he could f you up. But I could never have gotten alpha status simply be being nice to him.

And he doesn't have emotional issues. He's not running away when he sees me. He follows me into the bathroom and jumps up in the window if I open the shudders; but rubs against my legs if I don't. He doesn't seem to have psychological scars to me. I think his biggest complaint was how BORED he was before we got our 2nd cat.

"You CANNOT say that a flower does not wish to be abused, because it is NOT SENTIENT"

You don't truly know that, and either way, you are justifying the killing of a being as okay, as long as it doesn't suffer.

So what if we found a being that was a mile across, but had no consciousness? What if it was older than mankind, a noble peace of nurture? Should we just eat it then, because it has no consciousness?

You're position is basically that murder is okay as long as no one suffers. Using your own slippery slope tactics, I could say that that means you support murdering human beings, as long as it's quick, nobody suffers, and nobody knows them so there's no family to suffer. Does that mean you support euthanasia for the homeless? LOL! (I mean, a lot of homeless people have zero ties to any other human beings. If they're killed instantly, they don't suffer and nobody else does.)

"Do you think masturbation and child beating is the same because both sperm and human children are alive? "

Catholics do (masturbation is murder, basically). They're the same as you and me, but they draw their line in an even more insane position in the sand than you do. I draw it at INTELLIGENT, you draw it at SENTIENT, and they draw it at ALIVE/ABLE TO BECOME SENTIENT IN THE FUTUER.

"Dogs have DIED from grief after losing a loved one"

I didn't say capacity, I said deepness. A dog's love is a mile wide, but only an inch deep. It's not generally (unless it's super-duper-smart) going to know what kind of music you like, what your favorite song is, what you'd like for christmas, how you like to have sex, etc, etc. It does not have the reasoning capacity to understand a personality in the deep way that two human beings can.

A human's love for their spouse is a mile wide, but as deep as the ocean. A dog's love is only as deep as their intelligence allows. Hopefully these metaphors make sense.

We're not all the same. You were just arguing with the other guy about how we are ALL unique. We are unique in how we love too. A goldfish is especially not going to know my favorite song or my birthday... Get it? There's a difference between STRENGTH and DEPTH.

but your mind seems to lack the depth to comprehend this.


"Why do I have to pick and choose who to care for and who not to?"

Ahh, here's where you lose your argument. Unless you possess the capacity to magically stop all suffering on planet earth, then you are by definition only able to stop part of the suffering. Which means that, regardless of how many flickr photos you post, in the real world, your help only goes so far.

I hope when you get up off your ass and actually volunteer for the causes that you believe in -- that you fight for the poverty, war, and racism you talk about. But until you do that, you're just another whiny armchair internet vegan.

In fact, because your opinion is anti-majority, and you go and spooge it on everyone on the internet -- you actually encourage your enemy.

For example, I sat through an hour long traffic jam (to go 2 miles). What happened? Some bleeding-heart (like you) couple hit a baby deer. Rather than putting it down, they tied it to the middle of the road. Nobody knew what to do with them. 7 cop cars blocked traffic on both sides of the road.

I vowed that 2 deers would die for the deer that delayed me and 1000 other people for an hour. (Don't worry, I don't believe in any kind of waste. I'll eat the meat.) I'm going to buy a gun and go hunting SPECIFICALLY BECAUSE of those bleeding hearts.

Now when you go posting images like this, while sitting on your ass and pretending to "care about all issues equally" (which is great, but unless you're GOD or a SUPER-POWERED BEING, you are NOT going to be able to snap your fingers and fix EVERY problem on the earth), you just encourage the rest of us to go to McDonalds and order 10 burgers out of spite.

In the end, even if you pick 1 cause, and work your entire life for it -- you're not going to win your war. You're just going to make the world a slightly better place. You can fight poverty your whole life -- many have -- but it's still going to be here.

So when you say you care about everythign equal, you make yourself a joke. You prove yourself a helpless person who makes no difference, because you are never going to focus on a single goal or get anywhere with it. Especially if THIS is how you think you're going to make a difference. You're like the Godboys trying to save people's souls on flickr. It doesn't work.
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rita banerji says:

It is a form of power play.

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Rev. Xanatos Satanicos Bombasticos (ClintJCL)  Pro User  says:

Rita: What is a form of power play? Just curious what you meant. That was a very interesting survey with some very good questions, though question 11 troubled me as I felt that it could be B, C, and D equally, and also that B could cause C & D. Will there be a way to ever find out the results?
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bull_in_oc says:

That's racist!! YOU CHOOSE A BLACK GUY AND ASSUME THAT BLACK GUY IS THE GENERIC DEFAULT PICTURE TO EXPRESS RACISM!!

YOU ARE THE RACIST..

YOU == HITLER

OH BTW , HITLER WAS A VEGETARIAN, COINCIDENCE?? NO!
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foreignobsessed says:

bull in oc


get the fuck over yourself!



frickin' retard
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Vegan Butterfly  Pro User  says:

I didn't even respond because I'm having a hard time believing he's serious, it's such an outrageous statement!
Definitely one of the top most ridiculous comments I have ever heard!
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longwayround  Pro User  says:

I see it's fine to pick on 'retards' (I take it you mean people with learning disabilities) but somehow speciesism is wrong. Oh dear.
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Vegan Butterfly  Pro User  says:

longwayround, I hope you are not generalizing and thinking that, because of one person's comment, that all anti-speciesists support the use of "retard" as an insult. Because I, and many other vegans I know, are against it's use.

(Although I do believe that enslaving someone for their whole life, treating them as property and as a commodity, and killing him/her for profit or pleasure is a WHOLE LOT worse than calling someone a name.)
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longwayround  Pro User  says:

Certainly not. Much as I disagree with you on the subject of animals (I'm an ex-vegetarian who is now quite content to eat animals that have lived and died 'well'), I respect your commitment to a cause.
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