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wvlia5-on Meat-free 'Impossible Burger 2.0' tastes even closer to the real deal

So, shooting someone in the head is 'humane' then? Then, what does 'humane' even mean?

wvlia5-on Meat-free 'Impossible Burger 2.0' tastes even closer to the real deal

Please, describe to me this 'humane killing' process, what does it look like?

wvlia5-on Meat-free 'Impossible Burger 2.0' tastes even closer to the real deal

So you are basically saying "if I had to make no effort at all and I could also save some money, I would switch". Yes, that's obvious, everyone would, it's redundant to state it.

But what those 'vegan proselytizers' are asking you for, is to not be so selfish and make a bit of a sacrifice to spare the lives of others. But of course, you 'can't stomach' to be asked to not be selfish, and they are the ones to blame.

wvlia5-on Ask HN: How do you keep track of your creative thoughts?

Writer+ on android

For software related ideas on a project, a notes file in the project folder

For ideas I don't really intend to revisit, I write them in any piece of paper I can find and leave it around

wvlia5-on Researchers are keeping pig brains alive outside the body

You got it, stared straight at the cognitive dissonance produced by the incoherent values of our culture. Time to move forwards to showing compassion coherently.

wvlia5-on Researchers are keeping pig brains alive outside the body

Ok, so let's propose another quasi-arbitrary line and convention: black people can be enslaved, white people cannot. So, this rule would be just as arbitrary and valid as any other. Or is there a ethical justification against it?

wvlia5-on Researchers are keeping pig brains alive outside the body

I do not draw a line in kingdom either, that would be every bit as absurd and arbitrary as drawing a line on species or race. In practice, I end up eating only members of plant kingdom, but that is just a fortuitous artifact, not the result of drawing a line at 'kingdom'.

I seek to avoid causing suffering (I'm an utilitarian, but you don't necessarily have to be utilitarian to try to prevent suffering). Q: What entities can suffer? A: Sentient beings, by definition of sentience. In particular, animals that we usually kill, do suffer (but not necessarily every individual belonging to that kingdom does). Carrots do not (but if in the future we discovered an individual of another kingdom that suffered as much as a pig on a slaughterhouse, I wouldn't eat him either, being there so many other options).

Richard Dawkins and Peter Singer had a chat explaining well this issue: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GYYNY2oKVWU