@purplepursuer@suzylebo@ConceptualJames The Levellers were basically liberals who wanted aristocracy abolished and for everyone to have equal rights under the law. The Diggers called themselves the “True Levellers” because they wanted to go further and have a communist equality through abolition of private property.
@max86274618@shoefan13@Aella_Girl We already do the things that prove we are superior. No animals ever do anything to preserve other species from extinction, and yet humans do that. The fact that we believe in other animals’ having rights is something no other species believes in. You’re proving my point.
@shoefan13@max86274618@Aella_Girl It’s about survival and health, not taste pleasure. Once lab grown meat becomes convenient, affordable, and healthy, I’ll stop eating meat from slaughtered animals, but I’m not gonna judge people for eating slaughtered meat at a time before this scientific breakthrough.
@shoefan13@max86274618@Aella_Girl Seems like you’re intentionally missing the point. As a collective species, we are smarter than other species even if some of us individuals are smarter than others. No animals have the concept of rights. They are just fundamentally beneath us.
@shoefan13@Aella_Girl Why do you think we humans can hold ourselves to a higher moral stand than other animals? Is it because you think we are superior? Well, I would agree. We are superior. And as a superior species, we should look after ourselves first and foremost.
@max86274618@shoefan13@Aella_Girl Do they have the concept of rights? If so, they should believe in whale rights. I don’t expect them to believe in human rights. They don’t care about us because they’re not human. We need to look after ourselves first and foremost.
@max86274618@shoefan13@Aella_Girl It’s mostly about familial responsibility. Humans are a family that no other species can be apart of or understand. We owe certain things to each other that we don’t owe animals who are too stupid to even comprehend the concept of rights.
@shoefan13@Aella_Girl Most slaveowners to ever exist didn’t care about race. Most enslaved those of their own race. Either way, for thousands of years living things had to die for humans to survive, and clearly animals don’t believe that we humans have rights which is why they eat us when they can
@romanhelmetguy And that Brutus who founded the Republic was a person worthy of emulation and respect, unlike the piece of shit who destroyed the Republic once and for all. The later Brutus did to Caesar exactly what the earlier Brutus would have done.
@PraetorPatrick@UkinSum@jtalexander@DrewPavlou Well the word “genocidal” equally applies to all of them regardless of the reason why they committed the genocide. This is how words work. Thanks for coming to my Ted talk
@SenatorBeau@jtalexander Worse than anything a Roman emperor did? Dude, there were several emperors that were rapists, mass murderers, and pedophile child abusers. Tiberius essentially had his own little Epstein island on Capri