Because, for all of the awfulness they bring to the rest of us, they are human.
Humans who the other humans desperately need to be stripped of their wealth and power, and for whom the doing of which might offer them some small chance to save themselves from the yawning void of more more moremoremoremoremoremore
If all the unethical things were sensorially unpleasant, and all the ethical things as tasty as good chocolate, this would be a world of pure virtue.
Hey you know what eats vegetables? YEAH COWS AND THEY’RE HUGE AND YOU WOULDN’T DO WELL IN A FIGHT WITH THEM.
Silly obligate carnivores~
People are willing and able to ignore the sufficiently-abstracted moral hit for deliciousness. Upthread, I commented on someone else with an effortpost, about how they knew about the immorality, and that choosing to turn a blind eye to it and instead be outwardly nasty is bad for the soul.
A lot of people would be willing to take that cookie if you tell them that, in the process of making it and as a requirement, they kicked a dog. That already happened, after all. What would not eating the cookie mean now?
Time really fucks with people on a minute to minute basis. Doing moral calculus while removing the time element is wholly outside of their experiences, mostly.
One person, not eating one meat meal, doesn’t really shift the needle.
One person, spending entire rest of their life, not eating any of the meat meals they otherwise would have, does in fact add up to several animals worth of meat.
Ten people, spending the entire rest of their lives, not eating any of the meat meals they otherwise would have, is a massive number of meat animals, for which the demand will not exist, and which will not therefore be raised.
There are a lot more than ten vegans.
While I’m not, I respect those that can.
Your bitterness that prevents you from ever having to consider if you have made a moral error is not serving you in your day to day morality, and it will eat into other areas of your personhood. I suggest to you that the emotional hit for acknowledging that yes, choosing not to eat meat is fine actually, and it does do some good, or, in the equally true but differently perspectived stance, you choosing to eat meat is hurting animals. Price the morality into your meat. You’re still paying it if you ignore it, but the cost is in being a tolerable person who people want to be around.
It’s weird that nobody ever comes up to my hamburger and I and starts ranting at us about not eating meat. Clearly it’s only vegans who have an issue.
/s because we are all past the days of thinking it could be skipped.
When you process data with that energy, you can have prompt specified porn with slightly less finglers than your furrent prompt specified porn.
When you process mass with that energy, you have products that people can use and that can improve their lives.
So, yes, actually? Did you think that datacenters did not burn a bunch of resources alongside that electricity, like clean water, and output a bunch of nastiness approximately continuously, leaving aside entirely the issue of the video cards that enter as structured mass and leave a year later as toxic ewaste? What is that data processing facility offering that we need and at the same time, lived without entirely, ten years ago?
Tonight, I’m gonna have myself a real good time
I feel alive
And the world, I’ll turn it inside out, yeah
I’m floatin’ around in ecstasy
So don’t stop me now
Don’t stop me
‘Cause I’m havin’ a good time
Havin’ a good time
I have done my best to make the lives of the people around me better, and I have taken joy in life.
What need legacy?
Ah. Plurality, neither royal nor intended to include entities beyond this body.
Not… that this one is aware of?
What drama are you envisioning?
We actually fairly recently had a severe mental event, and since then, frequently read sarcasm as serious on the first pass and sometimes for some time after.
It fucking sucks from this side, too. We just go charging at someone and then have to be like, oh, uh, sorry, guess I was socially stupid!
We can at least take some solace in knowing we all hate the situation together?
No, just noticed you around. Mentioning the pronunciation of your name in comments caught its attention, because up until it saw you saying something, this one thought it knew how to say “Tanis”, but perhaps it is mistaken.
This one believes it has seen you speak of this in the wild previously and was curious then, and now, as this one as at least passed you more than once, may it ask if there is a reference for entities that are online?
It’s not just saturday morning cartoon villain evil.
It’s also incredibly fucking stupid.
Anything that you get better outcomes from by making people work longer, like assembly lines, can be done better by robots anyway, and of course you as capital owner don’t have to live life after your dominant hand gets crushed and amputated.
Anything that isn’t pure rote work, you get better results when people are not overworked and spending thirty hours a week sticking fucking pencils in your acoustic ceiling because nobody’s fucking brain works that long and hard.