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Comment by go13 | Hacker News Reader

so, if cows go extinct or nearly extinct like pandas because there is no demand for beef, will we blame vegans? :)

In the conversation that led to me originally going vegetarian, I made this argument. Sometimes I wonder if I care more about animals, or just relying on sound logic in arguments.

So the alternative is we keep them around purely for selfish reason so we can impregnate, rape, and eventually kill? If I was a cow I’d want to be extinct.

We have a plethora of options available today that don’t require an animal dying or suffering and yet we still turn to mass killings to feed our desires. Humans really are at the bottom of the pyramid.

Living beings normally strive to make their spices survive as a group. There are billions of cows now. The bad side is that they are not evolving in the way how it could be in the wild, but they are not going extinct like dinosaurs either. Also, cows were hunted and killed by other animals in way more cruel manner than people do this now. I think they way how they are treated will be even better with time. Therefore their life along with humans is way more humane than what would happen to them in wild. Not so bad deal.

and btw, " If I was a cow I’d want to be extinct." - that's a good philosophical point that indicates the lurking nature of some of the vegans, vegetarians etc.

They are not only would rather think that it is better for a cow to die than to live some time, but also ..

..they would spread the idea that maybe humanity would better off going extinct..

And this idea genocidal idea can lead to things similar to what was done by different totalitarian streams of 20th century: Nazism, fascism, communism.

J.B.Peterson talks about this quite interestingly. But "woke" folks dont like him ;)

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