• SnowdenHeroOfOurTime@unilem.org
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      A person who thinks it’s okay to force pregnancy and birth onto other life forms. In the US we call these assholes “republicans”

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        everyone thinks that’s ok: how could we have beer, bread, fruits, or veggies without it? that’s not a republican, it’s just a human.

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            when you set the standard, and i meet it, then you change the standard, that’s called “moving the goalposts.”

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            I mean disagree all you want but biologically speaking plants are life. And also biologically speaking a lot of plants have some form of “pain” reflex where they can react to damage. However that argument being a stretch is also true. It does work in some circumstances, mostly when you have a militant vegan insisting all life should be protected and no life should be ended for food (has happened to me once so by no means is this a likely event but it shows that the argument does work on very rare occasions)

            On a slightly related note: from a genetic perspective fungi (as in mushrooms) are a lot closer to animals than they are to “other” plants. Not trying to use it as an argument or anything just a fun tidbit of trivia while we are on the topic.

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                ok point me to where I wrote “plants are animals”

                I wrote “plants are life” and if you disagree with that I’m sorry but you’re delusional.

                In case it relates to the mushroom tidbit: mushrooms also aren’t animals. They’re just closer to animals than plants but in the end they are fungi.