cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27622066

And yet, unhitched from the menial task of transportation, the average horse today enjoys a far better quality of life than the average pre-car horse. Why? Horse girls. You see, now that the market demand for horses is no longer based on actual horsepower, horses can render the service of “just being themselves” for those who appreciate that most (in much more forgiving circumstances). In this way, horses truly are forever… and the real losers really are mankind. And its machines. In this essay, I will

  • infinitesunrise@slrpnk.netEnglish
    62·
    2 days ago

    The steady march of human-driven extinctions is a terrible argument for forcibly breeding a population into the hundreds of millions for the express purpose of manual labor until death. That’s like reading I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream and being on the side of the malicious AI because it’s keeping a half dozen people alive specifically to torture them. Also living things don’t need a “purpose” merely to be alive, this is a capitalist delusion.

      • Jerkface (any/all)@lemmy.caEnglish
        31·
        21 hours ago

        Your point genuinely escapes me. I think you are just engaging in distraction, and I think it is you that you are trying to distract.

        • TimewornTraveler@lemm.eeEnglish
          21·
          21 hours ago

          it’s exactly that. People cant handle the cognitive dissonance in the fact that modern treatment of domesticated animals is utterly unethical.

          if you fully accept that you’re contributing to the suffering of millions by participating in the meat and dairy industries, you have to be able to live with that. I understand that it’s one of the shittier things i do. maybe I should hate myself but i dont, I’m human and complicated like everyone else, and I dont need to tell myself that all my actions are morally good. maybe one day ill quit various things, like murder and smoking

      • infinitesunrise@slrpnk.netEnglish
        41·
        2 days ago

        I guess more generally it is a hierarchical delusion, since it’s hierarchy that demands purpose from it’s subordinates, capitalism is just the specific hierarchy at play here.