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Ah, are we going back to leet speak, again?

We’re currently in the sixth mass extinction event in the history of the Earth, with insects being hit quite badly in particular.

Obviously, this is largely due to climate change and agriculture. You’re not likely going to save the world by sparing individual mosquitos.

But to me, that’s still kind of why I never really felt this question was terribly relevant. Even a morally bankrupt egomaniac has an interest in keeping insects around, because they are an essential part of the network that supports our lives. And so, if there’s no reason to kill a given insect, then you should want that insect to live an excellent life, whether you’re vegan/pacifist or not.

If there is a reasonable chance that they carry a disease or similar, then yeah, that is a different, more nuanced discussion.

It’s German for “cinema”. No idea, if that’s the context, though.

Please don’t pigeonhole me as a communist. I hold these opinions out of personal conviction.

I think, the differentiating factor here is that I don’t give a fuck about myself. If you kill me, who cares? I’m not gonna. I’m not saying, I wouldn’t flinch, if you put a barrel to my head. I’m just saying that I don’t consider it a particularly evil act to kill me in particular.

To take a contemporary example, I consider it much more evil to pump tons and tons of CO2 into the atmosphere, killing thousands of people, animals etc…
It’s not as direct as holding a gun to someone’s head, so you could argue that their intention isn’t as evil, but the effect is much worse.

And ultimately, yeah, in my world view, it’s never the poor who are particularly relevant in their evilness, because their lack of money severely limits their ability to be awful.

I think, it’s just completely backwards. So many rich people got rich off of immoral behaviour, yet brand themselves as philanthropists. Those people have real-world impact on me. I really don’t care about some starving guy in a foreign country. His impact on the world is practically non-existent.

I imagined it as them just having heard rumors of what anon did and possession of actual drugs would have been their only evidence…