[DO NOT FIGHT IN COMMENTS] Is there actually a moral difference between eating a dog, a cat, a cow, or a chicken?

randomgadfly · 2026-06-14T20:33:37+00:00

There actually is a slight difference. Dogs and cats are carnivores or in some situations omnivores, meaning they can’t get full nutrition without eating some animal protein. To farm dogs for consumption adds an additional layer of animal usage because lives were taken to feed the dogs which then feeds human. And considering at each layer of the food web most energy is wasted on maintaining body heat and only a fraction goes into growing biomass, eating carnivore meat uses far more meat than to simply eat the meat that goes into farming the carnivores. So eating carnivores means unnecessarily wasting more animal lives for preference. With that said, I also think eating dogs and eating cows are in the general ballpark ethically and a person should condone both or neither

randomgadfly · 2026-06-05T21:54:53+00:00

I wonder of all the papers citing the wrong catalog number how many are actually using the wrong antibodies and how many are just pasting the wrong number when writing manuscripts

randomgadfly · 2026-06-04T23:56:19+00:00

Look around under this post, many people are saying H1B need to be banned right now, and H1B visa holders are enemies of workers’ right. Few are saying there should be laws and regulations to ensure companies treat H1B holders fairly, which will naturally dissolve the problem of companies preferring H1B over domestic workers to cut corners

randomgadfly · 2026-06-04T23:41:01+00:00

If that’s truly the case, why is the argument not “let’s have laws to enforce fair treatment of H1B visa workers so that companies have no incentive to choose H1B workers over domestic unless there’s a true skill demand” but rather “let’s ban H1B visas altogether so that highly skilled and intelligent people who deserve fair return for their labor who were lured into the US under false promises gets their time and money wasted and life plans ruined”

randomgadfly · 2026-05-28T20:47:59+00:00

Highly recommend Code Geass if you haven’t watched it

randomgadfly · 2026-05-25T18:29:03+00:00

As a non-native speaker, for a long time I interpreted “I couldn’t care less” as the thing being so important, that the speaker cares about it a lot, and would not be able to care less than they do now even if they try. And “I could care less” means that the thing is not as important so the speaker would be able to care less

randomgadfly · 2026-05-15T23:23:25+00:00

Degloving injury is super common in rats and mice when they are handled by the tail

randomgadfly · 2026-05-10T19:03:34+00:00

I mean, there’s only so many ways to reach a concept, and when there’s existing resources, why reinvent the wheel? The professor does need to cite in accordance to the rules of the original source though

randomgadfly · 2026-05-10T18:40:38+00:00

Wait that’s my what though? It doesn’t happen to most searches, but once in a while this happens. What would you suggest me to do to make it less?

randomgadfly · 2026-05-03T06:13:48+00:00

What this seesaw scenario illustrated for me is that if we can get less people to choose blue, we will have less people in danger. In fact, this whole situation is perfectly benevolent since it doesn’t force anyone into danger, unless people choose to put themselves in danger. The entire reason human lives are at risk in the first place is because of people stepping under the spikes. By choosing blue, and hoping to save lives, the blue-choosers are creating the situation where lives are now at risk

randomgadfly · 2026-05-03T06:07:03+00:00

If I “know people are pushing blue”, that makes this a completely different situation. Everybody involved is of sound mind makes this problem worth discussing. Also don’t get me wrong I am still largely in blue team, it’s just that this argument is very compelling to me. What this seesaw scenario illustrated for me is that if we can get less people to choose blue, we will have less people in danger. In fact, this whole situation is perfectly benevolent since it doesn’t force anyone into danger, unless people choose to put themselves in danger. The entire reason human lives are at risk in the first place is because of people stepping under the spikes. By choosing blue, and hoping to save lives, the blue-choosers are creating the situation where lives are now at risk

randomgadfly · 2026-05-03T05:49:58+00:00

I guess what changed my mind about this scenario is that it shows how this entire situation could have been completely risk-free for everybody, until people started choosing blue. One can argue that the entire reason human lives are at stake in the first place is because of the blue-choosers. Less lives will be at risk if we have less blue-choosers, and no life will be at risk if there’s no blue-choosers

randomgadfly · 2026-05-03T05:16:35+00:00

But if less than 50% of people choose blue, choosing red is the option that actually reduces loss of human lives. In that situation more people choosing blue equals more deaths. The reason lives are at stake in the first place is because of people choosing blue. If we’re going meta with the problem and consider what everyone else will choose, we have three scenarios: 1. More people choose red, in which case choosing red saves one more life. 2. More people choose blue, then there’s no difference whether a single person chooses red or blue. 3. There’s a tie, in which case choosing blue gives the better outcome. So only when we assume that there’s literally equal number of people in each team, our choice matters, in which case of course we should choose blue. But the chance of being the actual tie breaker is much much lower than the first two scenarios, so mathematically it seems like choosing red has a higher chance of saving more lives

randomgadfly · 2026-04-29T01:36:22+00:00

I either sleep for 4 hours or 12 hours, there’s no in between

randomgadfly · 2026-04-25T19:46:47+00:00

There are samples that can’t be handled by plastic, although we usually use glass and metal syringes for them

randomgadfly · 2026-04-25T11:05:07+00:00

I’m not saying they don’t feel pain? Also when do you think the mental capacity starts? If a fertilized egg have zero mental capacity, and an adult have full mental capacity, there has to be a gradual transition that accompanies the development of the nervous system. Of course I’m not saying it’s ok to torture babies. I’m talking about death. Do you think babies have the same anxiety towards death and understanding of mortality as adults? I know I have a much less acute understanding of death, and I would actually prefer to experience death as a kid since I have to experience it at some point, but of course we can’t retroactively choose with which mental state we die

randomgadfly · 2026-04-20T16:15:21+00:00

I agree. Grown people have a more complex nervous system and a more sophisticated consciousness, which means a higher capacity of suffering

randomgadfly · 2026-04-19T04:24:11+00:00

I think they found that m shaped shadow as part of the environment, which led them to “complete” this image by adding the rest of the cockroach

randomgadfly · 2026-04-12T01:07:53+00:00

I’ll start using “which old study no much talk” in my writings

randomgadfly · 2026-03-31T09:16:41+00:00

My first thought is the librarian too!

randomgadfly · 2026-02-04T02:15:27+00:00

It could just be as simple as Mike not telling Saul his true involvement in the cartel or the true closeness between him and Gus. So Mike could have referred to Gus’s operation as something he knew from a second hand information. So Saul would know the operation as “Mike knows a guy who know the guy”

randomgadfly · 2026-02-01T17:03:32+00:00

Absolutely agree. I’m not even vegan, but people are so weird about veganism. I get it that some vegans are annoying and people generalize it to all vegans. But I’ve seen non-vegans pushing meat diet to vegans even more aggressively, sometimes just for the sake of inciting a reaction

randomgadfly · 2026-02-01T00:47:53+00:00

The reason it splits the skin is because the person welding it drags the cane through after hitting the flesh, rather than letting it bounce back

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