>>1982898I am, in fact, vegetarian. I know that the decision to be vegetarian is not entirely unproblematic, but I am, mostly because I'm disgusted by industrial agriculture and how it treats animals. I do not think that life is about suffering and struggling, either. I just require a more nuanced view than the usual "nature is perfect because as long as the right animals kill the right animals in the right way everyone's happy, but then humans come and ruin everything" narrative.
>>1982896I am NOT a nociception propagandist, and I do NOT claim human exceptionalism. Rather than claim that humans are just like other animals, I claim that other animals are, in some fundamental aspects, like humans. When humans subject humans to suffering, I think it's awful. When humans subject non-humans to suffering, I also think it's awful. However, just because I find human industrial abuse of animals distressing doesn't mean that I'm idealising some "natural state". Non-humans subjecting other non-humans to suffering is awful, as well, and we can't do much to stop them.
Look at the OP pic again. The pic tries to show all wildlife at peace, yet everyone knows, that after they've had their little spirital communion, someone's going to have to feed all those animals. The human has the privilege to look away and have some vegetarian snack or something, but what about the others? Since we're talking vulgar fantasy cliches here, I assume he can use magic to conjure up magical food for everyone, but how would that be done in real life?
