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What is something you like that you initially disliked because of bad representation?
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you know, empirical data was also used to determine that Africans and women didn't have consciousness and were just mindless beasts.
perhaps in another 60-100 years we'll have a better understanding of sentience and will determine that plants, being a different organism, lacks a brain or nervous system but has something comparable.
point is, just because you know something today doesn't mean it's factually the truth.
instead of basing decisions on your diet entirely from an emotional reaction, perhaps it's best to determine your diet based on hard facts of nutritional value and environmental impact.
No, it wasn't. Empirical data was fabricated. There was never evidence to support those claims, which is why we no longer believe them.
I'm not, I'm basing decisions on evidence. Fuck you for projecting your idiocy onto me.
Which includes eating meat instead of plants. But I personally do it because we know animals feel fear and pain, and we do not know that about plants.
Why are you fighting in favor of needless slaughter? Fucking psychopaths here.
you seem to be in an emotional hysteria right now. so it's natural that someone would think that you're basing all your information on emotional triggers because you are arguing in an unstable emotional state.
go outside and touch grass, you need the downtime.
we'll all be here waiting for you to call us names again once you've calmed down.
Not if they know how to read. Evidence guides my choices, and then I get emotional because dumbfucks reject evidence so they can continue causing harm without guilt.
You should be angry, too.
why would I be angry?
I eat meat and veg. you eat only veg. we both live completely different lives with completely different requirements and completely different perspectives.
in my perspective, I eat meat because I eat meat not sure why that's something to get so emotional about and call me a psychopath.
are you angry because you're hungry?
I'm angry because you choose needless death and suffering, dipshit.