angrystego @ angrystego @lemmy.world

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Ok, now try with hawkweed.

I agree fully. If you were not allowed to eat other life, you would be left with licking salt. But that's not what I meant. What I meant was people use the "thing" label to make it easier to drop empathy - to do shitty things to both humans and other animals.

Violence is not the basic force driving life and decisions. It's just one of the basic factors that helps to structure our society (and all societies).

It's not their theory. If someone explains basic theory of relativity to you, will you call it their theory?

First I was sure these were kitchen sponges.

I think recognizing what is alive and what is not is a question of basic science education. I agree animals shouldn't be treated as smartphones.

By treating animals like people, do you mean respecting them and not killing them or letting them work as senators?

IMO treating animals like things is definitely wrong, in the same way treating people like things is. Neither of them is a thing, all us animals are alive.

You misspelled skirt.

Only some people are something - like Jews during WW2. We call living creatures including people "things", because then it feels more ok to kill them. It lowers the empathy.

It justifies it by precedens. Aster means star - astronauts have been called people travelling to stars for a long time, even though interstellar travel is not possible for us yet, so naming their means of transport Starship is not out of line. It just follows a kind of funny naming tradition.

You're right. I think it could be interpreted as space as well, a kind of universe sensu stricto, excluding our little round home.

People going to space are called astronauts - in this context I see no problem with Starship.

That escalated gradually but thoroughly.

I've heard that Jeffrey Epstein died of just a matter of focal length or cropping.

Fake but cute even originally!

Hello, little brother.

Definitely. But which one? We need names!

Your mom's just a matter of focal length or cropping.

You forgot lemmy is a social medium too - the same crowd here, I'm afraid.

It's important to learn from the best.