• Victoria Antoinette @lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    Would you refuse to save a child from poverty on the grounds that billions will continue living in poverty?

    this is a terrible analogy because at the end of one, you can point to the person being saved. no animals are saved by eating plants.

    • dinkusmann@feddit.rocks
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      10 days ago

      Good point. I don’t think it changes my argument though. If anything, allowing a creature to come into existence just so that it can be slaughtered is way more fucked up than exploiting an existing person.