this post was submitted on 18 May 2026
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Ye Power Trippin' Bastards
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as if the humans caring and nurturing behavior is less of an "evolutionary response"? Also what difference does it make? Is the pain response not to be taken seriously if it's "just an evolutionary response"? At what point did our pain response make the jump from "just evolutionary" to "ensouled" (or whatever term you want to use) and therefore more precious?
Also you're the one to bring up that there is supposedly a distinction to be made and immediately through up your hands that you don't wanna argue this claim?
I said I didn't want to get into it about what "love" specifically means as that's a completely different can of worms.
It matters because it's an appeal to emotion. It's an attempt to evoke an emotional response by attributing the human concept of parental love to animals that are not sapient. It's a bad argument.
and as usual when you are the one to actually have to present an argument for your claims you "loftily indicate that the time for argument has passed" as sartre would say. Totally not sealioning behaviour. This is at least the third such thread you just decide to leave because you actually can't get by with two sentence claims that have the reader guessing at the argument you're trying to make.
That's not what I did though, did you even read the rest of my comment?
It's fine, keep embarrassing yourself by telling people not to eat meat because "the animal's mom loved them"
Your argument was that the care and nurture of a cow mom is different from that of a human mom. That one is out of love and the other merely an "evolutionary response". Where you draw this distinction is completely unclear but you immediately announced you will not argue it. How is this not "loftily indicating that the time for argument has passed"?
You made a claim now you can argue it or refuse to, like you usually do.