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To reiterate my point a last time because if you don't read my comments, I don't interact with you much further:
You are attacking the strawman that veganism is about never ever using wool. That's not what veganism is about. Veganism is about reducing suffering which in the current moment means not buying animal products. This doesn't mean that vegans won't use animal products in a hypothetical situation. And "Imagine tomorrow everyone turns vegan" is a hypothetical situation. Coming up with a hypothetical situation in which it is ethical for vegans to use animal products doesn't prove anything but that your strawman is irrational. Veganism is about harm reduction. This translates to not using animal products in the current moment but not as an absolute. Treating it as an absolute is a strawman. I brought up freegan because it's an example where even today, eating animal products can be ethical within a vegan framework.
My argument continues that once you find yourself is a "messed up situation", the question becomes more nuanced. In such a situation, the definition of veganism as harm reduction becomes more prominent than the derived idea "we shouldn't buy animal products". Clinging to that would be irrational but, again, it would be a strawman.
And it doesn't matter how this messed up situation came to be. I didn't say take a time machine and prevent the messed up situation. I said in a messed up situation, the vegan principals manifest in a different way.
To directly answer this: my argument is that in this "messed up situation" that we domesticated sheep and bred it to this state, and the "hypothetical situation" that every single person turns vegan tomorrow, the idea "not using animal products will reduce suffering" doesn't apply and the more general idea of reducing suffering manifests in a different way. But I give you that: I shouldn't have bring but not non vegans bred them. It didn't really contribute to my argument but gave you the opportunity to engaged with that instead of my argument. I should have seen that coming.
And I wasn't talking about the UK. I was talking about the fact that wolves do come back in Germany in a natural way from further East and I think other parts of central Europe as well, and hunters lobby for killing them.
Would you argue for killing predators in their natural habitat because they would kill prey if you don't? That's a strange utilitarian idea.
And there is certainly more to it. A biologist explained to me that deer find food in the fields and in a natural habitat without this food source, their population would be much smaller. Is the solution to ban agricultural next to forests? I don't know. But I think there are better ways to interact with nature.
And about Pluribus: Rewatch the episode to get the harvest robots thing (it wasn't suggested by the hive mind and it didn't like it) but my point was that the hive mind has nothing to do with veganism. If read as an allegory for it, it's an even weaker strawman than yours. Again, I shouldn't have bring it up because now you focus on that instead of what my point was.
No I'm not, but you saying that, that is a strawman. I made the larger point that veganism is ultimately irrational, and I demonstrated it by showing you there's several questions you simply can't answer without getting so worked up you get into personal insults.
Oh wowooooow. This definitely surprises me so, as my earlier points have exactly pointed out that reducing suffering and being against shearing sheep or being against the population control of deer simply do not go together.
If you are against hunting elk/deer which is done based on government giving out felling permits, then you are for increasing suffering, as overpopulation of deer would devastate the environment and lead to increased car-deer crashes, which increase suffering to both animals and humans.
I cringe so hard when people toss around the names of rhetorical fallacies when they don't understand their definition either.
And you already admitted several times you don't even read my comments. There is nothing about veganism I don't know, despite you screeching how I don't know anything about it and after several comments where I argue with "reduce suffering" being the goal, you spurt "v-veganisms goal is t-to reduce suffering".
Yeah. That's what my comments are about and that's why you can't answer what to do with sheep or deer.
Were you the one who said we should literally drive sheep to extinction? I get confused with so many irrational vegans crying in my replies.
Your internal logic isn't consistent. The actions of vegans in general are more consistent in terms of animal morality than most, because most don't give a flying fuck and just go with whatever society is going with. However you don't really care enough to actually study the philosophy you say you're practicing. Or at least even glimpse at it critically.
Because you prolly live in a city, and denying death is just so much more comforting to you than accepting it as a natural part of life.
Hunters lobby for felling permits, because killing wolves is what has been practiced since before we had calendars, because wolves are the dogs which didn't get domesticated.
I live in SW Finland. I've never seen a wolf. The loner wolves, yeah, we sometimes get, and usually they're given a felling permit. Known why? Because lone wolves are dangerous. They're desperate and could snatch a kid walking home from school. That's not likely or even that probable, but what they do do, is kill domestic animals. Wolf packs we don't have, because there isn't animals for them to hunt around here.
But you're saying that this is wrong, and that hunters should stop hunting completely, and we should let packs of wolves roam population centers in Europe? And you genuinely think that's somehow morally superior of an idea? You can't be that thick. You're about "reducing suffering", yet you think it's better to 1) have wolfpacks where wolfpacks have never existed and 2) that a deer dying to a wolf suffers less while being eaten alive than a deer killed by a single shot from a rifle that the deer doesn't even have time to hear before it hits?
By what logic?
Using bloodhounds in hunting has been banned for a long time because of its cruelty. But you're arguing that we should bring literal packs of wolves to population centers despite the obvious risks, and that you support this notion because you're about reducing suffering?
Again, these aren't a natural habitat for wolves. They're coursing predators, not fucking house cats. If you don't understand what that means, maybe you shouldn't be arguing about wolves? My nickname is pretty much "wolfie" by it's Finglish etymology and I've been a massive fan of wolves since the early 90's.
Do I agree that we've intruded on what is the natural habitat of wolfs? Sure. But again, I didn't do it. And mostly, neither did anyone alive right now. MOSTLY. As in, the whole of Europe used to be good hunting grounds for wolfpacks. But since humans came, they slowly either 1) became dogs or 2) went further away.
Wyaah. I dislike reality, I don't have any suggestions on what to do, but I demand you stop doing the things you're doing despite the obvious problems it will cause while solving nothing but a tiny portion of my angst towards death
Here kiddo, go and learn:
https://cornellbotanicgardens.org/conserve/deer/why-we-manage-deer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browsing_(herbivory)#Overbrowsing
sheesh I'm tired of having this exact same conversation everytime I point out how irrational veganism is, and you kids think you're gonna educate me when you don't even know the bare basics