I really need an explanation on this since people are not shutting up for months that EU is apparently putting insects in food for the people to be forced to buy and feed on like survivalists in jungle would? I know that EU is completely unhinged nazi hellhole and whatnot, but to this extent to feed themselves on bugs? I don’t think so.

Can somebody please tell me about this, they are not shutting up about it on social media for months?!

      • WithoutFurtherDelay@lemmygrad.ml
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        1 year ago

        I care much more about the well being of humans than insects.

        There is no reason to care about a human being that provides you no benefit more than an animal, other than pure prejudice. Human beings do not have “greater moral value” or some insane shit like that. The only possible justification we could use to prioritize human beings is some variant of “might makes right” bullshit which is just fascist schlock and leaves no room for the human beings that aren’t “mighty”. Or some weird pseudo scientific argument that animals feel less pain than us or something, but everyone agrees that’s highly suspect anyways.

        Either all conscious life is sacred, none of it is, or the life that you care about or directly benefits you is sacred. So, it’s valid to care about humans more, but don’t pretend it’s an objectively correct belief, because there is no such thing in that field. I could claim that crickets are way more important than human beings and have about as much grounding as you as long as I legitimately believed that.

        Does it make more sense to prioritize human beings because we’re all human and want to be prioritized? Yeah, that makes sense. But hurting animals is still sus under that logic.

      • JucheBot1988@lemmygrad.ml
        22·
        1 year ago

        I’m willing to listen to environmentalist arguments for veganism. Likewise, to people who (like monks in certain religious traditions) embrace veganism or vegetarianism as a kind of spiritual practice.

        What I don’t have time for is the concept that human beings need to stop seeing themselves as superior to other animals. It reeks of muddled thinkers like Count Leo Tolstoy. More importantly, it goes against the basic principal of Juche, that humanity, as “the most precious thing in the material universe,” “is the master of all things and decides all things.” I am all for humane treatment of animals, but the needs of humanity come first.

          • JucheBot1988@lemmygrad.ml
            41·
            1 year ago

            There would be nothing stopping a literal Nazi from making the same arguments to justify sacrificing people they don’t like to the meat grinder of fascism.

            Actually, there is, because under the Juche philosophy the characteristic human traits – independence, creativity, consciousness – are held to be social in origin, not individual. There is no ubermensch in Juche, because there is no individual who possesses his or her “superior” characteristics innately and individually.

            Yeah, no, this is just weird colonial-settler thinking but applied to humans instead of specifically white people.

            Nobody really ever changes their minds in this sort of debate, but – don’t you think it’s a little suspect that you arrived back, by a sort of loop, at the Cleanest Race position on the DPRK and its official ideology?