I had to look up the violinist thing, I'll summarize: it's a thought experiment where you wake up and somebody has sewn your body up to a violinist who has a disease and who needs your blood in order to survive. Will you allow this trespass on your bodily autonomy to help the violinist live, or will you demand the doctors separate you, (most likely resulting in the death of the violinist)?

The argument seems to be made in defense of allowing abortion because, ostensibly, who wouldn't want to say "get this violinist off of me" in that situation, and of course if one were raped and found out pregnant wouldn't you definitely want to be able to get that violinist out of your uterus.

But, it's not the same thing at all, because if you were to separate yourself from the violinist, they would die from their disease / from not being given very extraordinary aid, but if you were to separate yourself from the fetus, it would die from not being given very ordinary means of sustenance.

... and then something about saying that tialaramex is a functionalist (? I can't say whether I agree here). I am also repulsed by any thought that some calculus would allow us to say that N kittens are "worth" M human babies (for whatever M,N).

> being pro-life to avoid 'murder' should push people to go full vegan

Murder is a particular word we only use when a person kills another person. We wouldn't use it for killing animals, ... or for an animal killing a hum-- wait, here:

  |--------------------+--------+--------|
  | perp               | victim | result |
  |--------------------+--------+--------|
  | human              | human  | murder |
  |--------------------+--------+--------|
  | human              | horse  | kill   |
  | lion               | human  | kill   |
  | cat                | bird   | kill   |
  | dog                | dog    | kill   |
  | bacteria           | ape    | kill   |
  |--------------------+--------+--------|
  | thinking rocks [0] | human  | kill   |
  |--------------------+--------+--------|

[0] https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Home_Soil_(episode)

Killing animals for food is perfectly fine, but killing them for sport is very much not.

> full vegan (or eating only insects and seafood)

Because they have lower consciousness or something?