For example, I don’t use TikTok. I never have, and I never will, and I’d advise everyone else to get off the platform too. I genuinely believe it’s objectively harmful to people’s mental health and possibly even a threat to democracy. That said, I also believe people should be free to decide for themselves whether they want to use it or not, which is why I’m against the U.S. government banning it.
Jury Nullification
That goes against your personal preferences?
Step 1: look at the question that this thread is asking
Step 2: look at my post and pretend that I am providing my answer to it
I think many people on here, me included, would rather be using Reddit simply because of all the content.
Reddit as a site is superior to Lemmy, but ever since all the trash have flooded that place, I decided to leave. What I’m saying is that I would pbviously choose Reddit if we’d ignore the kind of people that are frequenting it, but since you can’t really ignore them when it comes to a social media, I use this site instead.
I would prefer to spend holidays with family but I don’t because they prefer to eat flesh and I am against animal abuse. I think it’s the right thing to do to protest this by not going but it sucks.
You could choose to subtly influence your relatives, but instead you “protest”. Pfft. Given the vegan I knew well, what you’re actually doing here is not going because you’re too grossed out by it. You know not going won’t inspire anyone to change, but you tell yourself that lie to justify it because being grossed out is not a high minded reason.
I have been requested to not talk about it.
You know not going won’t inspire anyone to change
Partner stopped going and the next year all family events were fully vegan because family prefers being together over eating flesh.
My stance on eating meat is kind of the exact opposite of what I was asking here. It’s one of the two things I continue doing despite not being able to morally justify it. Piracy is the other one.
both are easy to justify. humans share (food, culture, stories, songs, tools, etc). piracy is natural. laws that prohibit it are immoral.
as for eating meat, there is cost, convenience, and culture: for many people eschewing meat simply isn’t reasonable given their circumstances.
Vegan diets are ~16% cheaper on average in the US but even if they weren’t, a dollar a day does not justify killing someone.
can you substantiate this?
no one is killing anyone for meat
