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> Just like we domesticated cattle, we could do the same with practically all animals.

It's not worth the effort.

> Breeding does wonders

This is a platitude.

> I see no difference between an elephant and a pig

The one that's gray and weighs maybe 15000 lbs is an elephant. A pig, on the other hand is notably smaller, weighting around 200lbs. It's also pink. Hit me up next time you get confused.

> Temple Grandin

Lol, I'm passingly familiar with her work. After the revolution, she's going to gulags. Idk why you bring her up tho.

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> It's not worth the effort.

That's for capitalism to decide (and those look-the-other-way market agents).

> It's also pink. Hit me up next time you get confused.

Difference being ethical one, not physical. Giving same moral consideration (no matter how great or small the consideration is) to elephants and pigs would be ethically consistent, yet it's quite clear that consideration isn't equal, due to some flawed/mutated value system of appeals to tradition, popularity and futility.

> Lol, I'm passingly familiar with her work. After the revolution, she's going to gulags. Idk why you bring her up tho.

A good example of how breeding docile, non-aggressive creatures can result in some seriously mind-blowing complacent, plant-like behavior (we see it in the human gulags too, though, and it's documented quite thoroughly in the history of USSR, docile humans at its finest form).

Capitalism can't dictate morals.

Killing pigs and killing elephants is in a similar category. But it's kind of about context. Kinda like when you get a little less sad when an ISIS fighter dies compared wiyou a kid who dies of cancer.

Idk what the temple Grandin thing is about.

> Capitalism can't dictate morals.

I do agree with that.

> Killing pigs and killing elephants is in a similar category. But it's kind of about context.

Yeah, the context being that elephants are glorified by the press, while reporting on mistreatment of pigs (or any farm practices) in the USA is considered a criminal act. [0]

That's the look-the-other-way market agent from up there. The context is also that mentioned mutated set of values.

I don't think the comparison is anywhere close to ISIS.

> Idk what the temple Grandin thing is about.

Well, no one knew you could manage a milk farm with two people, so saying that elephants can't be domesticated is a bit of a stretch.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ag-gag

I agree that they are similarly bad and aggag laws are retarded. It's just that one is already an industry while the other one isn't. I'm in favor of closing the current industry but fundamentally I realize that this will be to go to push through.

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