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@OilyEyelids It’s so embarrassing seeing these online white and first worlder non-muslims don hijabs in this almost fetishistic nature. It’s crazy too because for whatever reason these online spaces are literally filled with this type of person

[v @mcnciddn]

@4HappyTrails @KaskaJessica @Jonetxurubi @jcpwaynesworld No they don’t lmao. That would make ancestry tests far more expensive. They only confirm or deny the presence of at least one Y chromosome

[v @mcnciddn]

@ApolloCurran …Desires can be instinctual, lmao. Your desire to live is also instinctual. Same as your desire to socialize, have sex, eat, etc. Being based on instinct doesn’t make it less of a desire

[v @mcnciddn]

Ok, well maybe you should read more then. Assuming things after 0 investigation is embarrassing. Animal cognition research has consistently demonstrated complex emotional needs among plenty of non-human animals. They naturally want to live. This much is obvious

[Apollo @ApolloCurran]

@mcnciddn @mxdokami I think animals don’t have as complicated brains as humans and don’t have a “want” to live in the same way we do.

[v @mcnciddn]

@Diasofficechair @zeraphice ??? I can tell you have never BEEN low income. Be serious. Embarrassing. You don’t even know what poor people eat

[v @mcnciddn]

@ApolloCurran And if true, why would that cheapen their desire to live?

[v @mcnciddn]

@ApolloCurran @mxdokami Can it truly be humane to kill an individual who wants to live simply because you desire to eat them? Especially in the context in which you have the privilege to thrive without doing so

[v @mcnciddn]

@mxdokami And for most societies, meat was historically not super frequent in one’s diet. The normalization of meat 3x a day is extremely recent

[v @mcnciddn]

@mxdokami It’s just not accurate to describe eating meat as a “natural urge that has been part of human nature for as long as we have existed”
Early humans ate primarily plants, similarly to chimpanzees, and there have also been plenty of plant forward societies throughout history

[v @mcnciddn]

@salemscrucible It’s also probably not a true story. You don’t get whisked away to the psych ward upon being caught killing a cat. And the type of psychiatric hospital people are brought to after a legal sentencing is different from the one someone is brought to in a more typical case

[v @mcnciddn]

@salemscrucible Of course mental illness can cause someone to hurt an animal—non-human or otherwise—I don’t think anyone is denying that. That just didn’t make it less disturbing for her to hear about it. Most people in a psychiatric hospital are not going to have stories like that

[v @mcnciddn]

@ShlomoSolomons @danker_hank Are you 12 years old?

[v @mcnciddn]

@evilrelaysp0rt There’s actually no evidence that starlings cause problems either though, and their population has even been declining in the US for the past couple-few decades. I get sad when I see hate towards them 😢 when stray cats are (understandably) loved despite their devastating effects

[v @mcnciddn]

@GSJS_1 @sibaburck The point is that it shouldn’t be viewed as food. It’s an individual’s body parts that are only able to be eaten because they were tortured and killed for it. Even if we call it food, it’s a single piece of chicken flesh. By what logic would it be more immoral to not eat it?

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@annatoftlarsen As for trans people, it appears that the brains of trans people are more structurally similar to the sex they identify than as the sex they were born as. This is true regardless of whether the trans person has begun hormones, too, interestingly enough

[v @mcnciddn]

@annatoftlarsen Yeah for sure! Sexual attraction is inherently biological, whether it’s homosexual or heterosexual. Homosexual attraction is thought to have certain biological advantages for a society altogether, such as decreasing competition among males and thereby promoting reproduction

[v @mcnciddn]

@orbitremover @Oxydildo Why did you take their care into your own hands as opposed to finding someone with the actual expertise and resources to do so? You had 4 months

[v @mcnciddn]

@Blackbeard62596 Then they’re dumb, but you should still drop the habit of referring to Palestinians in Gaza as “Gazans”. Palestinians were forced into Gaza by Israel and made unable to return to their original homes, and referring to them as Gazans divorces them from their Palestinian identity

[v @mcnciddn]

@annatoftlarsen I don’t think the phrase “coming out” should have to exclusively refer to coming out as gay or transgender, but also being gay or transgender is, too, a biological thing

[v @mcnciddn]

@annatoftlarsen Don’t know what OP’s situation is, but there are far more intersex variations than chromosomal abnormalities, and some often get diagnosed later in life, potentially creating a “coming out” situation with one’s family if one wishes to use that language