They’re destroying the parts that keep good people alive first and profiting off the destruction.

Well I think people are bad at reading.

I said I don’t want to argue with you. Quit trying to sealion me into an argument.

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I think this meme might spur people to be less likely to vote democrat. If the midterms still exist in a year, I want the Democrats to win them so Trump can’t keep destroying America so quickly.

I don’t like this meme

Sure, I can ignore the phone, but it’s quiet and distracting

Phone rings

I’m doing the dishes and my hands are wet

I’m sitting on the toilet

I’m in an online game

I just got the baby to sleep

I’m pipetting a solution

I’m with a customer

My hands are covered in engine grease

I’m meditating

I’m on my bicycle

I have gloves on

I’m carrying heavy furniture

I’m driving

I’m swimming at the pool

I’m in the middle of a set

I’m trying to put out a grease fire on the stove

Sure, I can ignore the phone, but it’s loud and distracting.

It’s like when you’re having a conversation on autopilot.

“Mum, can I play with my frisbee?” Sure, honey. “Mum, can I have an ice cream from the fridge?” Sure can. “Mum, can I invade Poland?” Absolutely, whatever you want.

I can’t see it, my instance has downvotes disabled. But I figured. Lemmy is a toxic and kinphobic place. A bunch of crabs in consensus reality’s bucket, trying to keep the rest of us from escaping.

I know plenty of alienkin. Life from other worlds exists, but conservative realists will tell you that otherkin are “trolling” or “insane”.

Potatoes don’t have a nervous system. As far as we can tell, a nervous system is required to feel pain.

Species is made up bullshit. There’s no such thing as humans.

I dunno. I haven’t had a long enough conversation with one to tell. I’d rather be safe than sorry. Last time we assumed a group of beings were subhuman and enslaved them, it wasn’t good.

And it is impossible to compare this complexity in practice, of course, as there are no criteria for measuring that.

Then why do you believe there’s a huge difference?

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If one human’s inner life were more complex than another’s, would you value their life more?

I’m genuinely a vegan because I think racism is wrong.

Single cells don’t have a mind either. Minds are made of neurons. An embryo begins developing neural cells during the fifth week of development. That’s just a few neurons, though, not a full brain. A fetus doesn’t get smart enough to process sounds until the late second. If a mind isn’t even complex enough to process any sensory information, is it more deserving of life than a cow? Cows like to run in the grass and play. They have social relationships. Fetuses aren’t that complex.

The human race thinks they’re the supreme race, better than the other races.

Embryos don’t have souls. The soul develops during the third trimester.

If you can play music into your belly and get a kick, that thing has a soul. But there’s a lot of time where it’s not that developed.