The idea that turned me into a vegetarian is the realization that my pets most definitely had personalities, and what is a person if not something with a personality?
I might not be able to have a complex discussion about shared interests with them, but there are plenty of humans you can say the same thing about, and I'm still not going to eat them, or be okay with them being tortured from birth to execution.
We have fossil evidence otherwise. Their greatest barrier to developing higher intelligence is that they die after reproduction, so they'll never have pressures to develop more symbolic thought or pass on knowledge.
Just among so many other things, like the lead poisoned baby food from March this year, you clown, the FDA was established in 1906, and Republicans are, right now, trying to abolish child labor laws and hiring 12 year olds in meat packing plants.
For one thing, they don't have a border with Israel, and Israel doesn't have Marines, so they can't even load up and sail through ally controlled water.
If Israeli troops try to invade Iran, or vice versa, it will either be through Iraq and Jordan/Syria and a whole bunch of weird shit will kick off if that happens.
Also... Everyone knows Israel has nukes, and Iran's program was rather famously sabotaged.
Say what you will about internet atheists, I don't think they go around saying everything is religion. They usually just, you know, criticize religion.
Literally the only time it's happened to me is on here (or MAGA, rather) from liberals pretending to be leftists because they don't know what words mean and think criticizing Biden is supporting Trump.
Seems like a selection bias issue tbh