“Always acceptable” can only be interpreted to mean in any amount, for any reason. That’s clearly sadistic and disturbed were it to reflect your true feelings. It’s the sort of nonsense a person says to themself when they refuse to allow themself to think rationally about a subject and actually reflect on their true feelings.

The animals we create are morally equivalent to our own children and are owed the exact same unconditional love and protection.

Caribs, for example, are black.

If all you save is face, THEN YOU HAVE SAVED NOTHING. What do you mean we don’t do this over here, this is all we fucking do. We don’t solve problems, we just market them.

*whoosh*

oh wow, it’s been like a decade since I saw someone do a “*whoosh*”

We don’t have African Americans here, we have black people. We don’t call them African Americans because most black people in my country are not from Africa (we have a large Caribbean population) and they are not American.

Downvoters: “Violence and cruelty are acceptable when jello is involved.”

Research ADHD

Unfortunately, jello requires violence and cruelty towards animals, and this is not acceptable to me.

That’s why I only ever use Seconds Since Epoch.

I can just close the game and never play it again

True and healthy!

while I enjoy actual good games.

blatant copium

Anything published by Ubisoft, Activision, Electronic Arts, Take-Two, Epic, Microsoft, Sony, sadly now Bethesda, and most other major publishers.

“Can a computer make you cry?” So much has been lost.

You are being hateful towards religion. That is very different than rationally opposing religious oppression and persecution, which obviously is a thing that does exist and needs to be opposed, but which does not define religion. You can’t make things better with hate. Figure your shit out.

WHAT religion? I was one of those edgy young mid 90s atheists.

Look, I’m sorry. I can see that you have trauma. But please don’t take it out on other people.

Is it your poorly stated, smug, so-ironic-no-one-knows-what-you-are-talking-about point that all religions promote oppression based on sexuality and gender, of the poor, and of children? Because that sounds an awful lot like American conservatism, not religion. But since you won’t come right out and state your points clearly in a way that can be directly refuted, how about you just fuck off.

“Serious question,” asks ridiculous question. You don’t need me here for the rest of this conversation, say what you are going to say. As long as you are not about to extrapolate from some abusive sect of Christianity that you are familiar with to the entire concept of religion generally. You know, like I just said.

Are you certain it is a “cartoon” and not just art?

It’s a bit tortured, I think. Tourist is visiting a scenic vista which we might call reality, and chooses to take a photograph of a photograph of that same vista, preferring the curated and potentially slanted view that it presents.

I mean, you can deny the premise all day long, but it will never win you an argument.

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“Ethical” does not mean “good”, “moral”, or “right”, it means something more like, “consistent with an explicit set of ethical axioms.” It’s meaningless to say something is unethical without stating or at least implying a specific ethical philosophy.

Carnism says that it is sometimes acceptable or even good to be cruel and violent to animals. Veganism says that it only is in cases of absolute necessity. A researcher or scientist for a cosmetics company might follow all the ethical requirements of their profession, and yet by any other standard, do unforgivable harm both to animals they experiment on and to the humans they mean to exploit with their research.