Potatoes don’t have a nervous system. As far as we can tell, a nervous system is required to feel pain.

Species is made up bullshit. There’s no such thing as humans.

I dunno. I haven’t had a long enough conversation with one to tell. I’d rather be safe than sorry. Last time we assumed a group of beings were subhuman and enslaved them, it wasn’t good.

And it is impossible to compare this complexity in practice, of course, as there are no criteria for measuring that.

Then why do you believe there’s a huge difference?

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If one human’s inner life were more complex than another’s, would you value their life more?

I’m genuinely a vegan because I think racism is wrong.

Single cells don’t have a mind either. Minds are made of neurons. An embryo begins developing neural cells during the fifth week of development. That’s just a few neurons, though, not a full brain. A fetus doesn’t get smart enough to process sounds until the late second. If a mind isn’t even complex enough to process any sensory information, is it more deserving of life than a cow? Cows like to run in the grass and play. They have social relationships. Fetuses aren’t that complex.

The human race thinks they’re the supreme race, better than the other races.

Embryos don’t have souls. The soul develops during the third trimester.

If you can play music into your belly and get a kick, that thing has a soul. But there’s a lot of time where it’s not that developed.

RATM, Ignea

Ignea is the Ukrainian band that made the burning of Alexandria homoerotic

It’s racism. They think human lives are more important than other races.

The brain inside your head. If you use that instead, you’ll get to be proud of your work. Plus, it won’t consume massive amounts of fossil fuels.

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Gen AI stinks.