Just to be clear, I see polygamy as bad only because of the women oppression aspect. But the world is a big place and history is long, so I wouldn’t be surprised if at some point there was some system that allowed for polygamy without oppressing women. Mentioning mormons - don’t you think they can be seen as another weird different group - and therefore be also object of xenophobia? Notice I intentionally didn’t use the word racism, what I mean is just the sentiment that people doing things differently than my group must be deadly wrong.

I thought the small one was a parasite - wanting the sugar. It would work as a joke with specific taxa.

But the probability you get wed to a guy who sets you aside because bored and then marries your girlfriend out of pure respect to you is very low.

I think in western culture it might be a bit of both, and also a bit of xenophobia - it’s different, so it must be bad. I’d be interested in knowing more too. Very good question.

I agree fully. If you were not allowed to eat other life, you would be left with licking salt. But that’s not what I meant. What I meant was people use the “thing” label to make it easier to drop empathy - to do shitty things to both humans and other animals.

Violence is not the basic force driving life and decisions. It’s just one of the basic factors that helps to structure our society (and all societies).

It’s not their theory. If someone explains basic theory of relativity to you, will you call it their theory?

First I was sure these were kitchen sponges.

I think recognizing what is alive and what is not is a question of basic science education. I agree animals shouldn’t be treated as smartphones.

By treating animals like people, do you mean respecting them and not killing them or letting them work as senators?

IMO treating animals like things is definitely wrong, in the same way treating people like things is. Neither of them is a thing, all us animals are alive.

You misspelled skirt.

Only some people are something - like Jews during WW2. We call living creatures including people “things”, because then it feels more ok to kill them. It lowers the empathy.

That escalated gradually but thoroughly.

Your mom’s just a matter of focal length or cropping.

You forgot lemmy is a social medium too - the same crowd here, I’m afraid.

It’s important to learn from the best.

When they say they want freedom, they mean freedom to be openly racist and such. They’re not really interested in freedom in general, they want a strict regime.