• GreenKnight23@lemmy.world
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    23 hours ago

    Plants do not have brains or nervous systems, they are not conscious.

    https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8052213/

    you know, empirical data was also used to determine that Africans and women didn’t have consciousness and were just mindless beasts.

    perhaps in another 60-100 years we’ll have a better understanding of sentience and will determine that plants, being a different organism, lacks a brain or nervous system but has something comparable.

    point is, just because you know something today doesn’t mean it’s factually the truth.

    instead of basing decisions on your diet entirely from an emotional reaction, perhaps it’s best to determine your diet based on hard facts of nutritional value and environmental impact.

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      14 hours ago

      empirical data was also used to determine that Africans and women didn’t have consciousness and were just mindless beasts.

      No, it wasn’t. Empirical data was fabricated. There was never evidence to support those claims, which is why we no longer believe them.

      instead of basing decisions on your diet entirely from an emotional reaction

      I’m not, I’m basing decisions on evidence. Fuck you for projecting your idiocy onto me.

      perhaps it’s best to determine your diet based on hard facts of nutritional value and environmental impact.

      Which includes eating meat instead of plants. But I personally do it because we know animals feel fear and pain, and we do not know that about plants.

      Why are you fighting in favor of needless slaughter? Fucking psychopaths here.

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        13 hours ago

        Fuck you for projecting your idiocy onto me.

        But I personally do it because we know animals feel fear and pain, and we do not know that about plants.

        Why are you fighting in favor of needless slaughter? Fucking psychopaths here.

        calm down

        you seem to be in an emotional hysteria right now. so it’s natural that someone would think that you’re basing all your information on emotional triggers because you are arguing in an unstable emotional state.

        go outside and touch grass, you need the downtime.

        we’ll all be here waiting for you to call us names again once you’ve calmed down.