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  • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldtoCurated Tumblr@sh.itjust.worksHorse boy
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    I simultaneously wouldnt litter on hikes

    That seems overly strict. I assume you’re not eating apple after apple for the amygdalin to do any harm, but then I also don’t assume you’re eating apple after apple for you to do any harm by just chucking it (without the sticker) somewhere out-of-the-way. I eat so closely to the core that people think it’s weird, but the core itself is physically uncomfortable to eat.



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    This got a report for xenophobia and, to my mind, it is xenophobic. It could totally be interpreted a different way where it’s inviting you to consider the cross-cultural nature of cuisine that gets boiled down into a single name, but it seems like most people, myself included (having seen how some other “Yes, but” comics go), don’t.

    I think it’s worthwhile to leave this post up because the comments surrounding it are worthwhile and actually transform this into something insightful.









  • What are you even talking about? The fact that you’re calling it “woke” tells me that there’s no productive conversation to be had with you. You’re saying in obvious bad-faith that calling the intentional killing of a living, sentient being for pleasure “murder” is equating killing e.g. a cow with killing a human child, but that’s obviously ridiculous; there are degrees of severity to morally wrong actions.

    You do this all the time; everyone does this all the time. If I see somebody kick a harmless dog, I’d call that “abuse”; you wouldn’t come up and start lecturing me about how “woke” I’m being because I’m diminishing human victims of abuse who are brutally beaten, starved, etc. by their family members.