How exactly is poultry a grey area? Have you met birds before?

I have, they are capable of feeling pain and possess reasonable intelligence. I just don’t consider them sapient in a way that matters. If you cut off a chicken’s head, it will still act like a chicken. This implies that most of what a chicken feels mentally is instinctual. If you cut off my head and I came into work the next day acting normal, it would raise serious questions about the nature of human consciousness. Poultry shouldn’t suffer unnecessarily, but I doubt it has much sapience. Thus a gray area depending on how you judge their intelligence and your own morals.

I hear what you’re saying about oysters (even though I disagree)

Vegans always say that but not a single person has ever responded to that point in my 6 years of making it. If you disagree, do what the vegans I’ve talked with failed to do and address it please.

making the same case for fish/octopus

You shouldn’t eat octopus. Everything I said about poultry applies 3 fold to fish. Less capacity to feel pain and less sapience. I don’t consider a creature that acts entirely on instinct to have any right to life.

None of the things you listed are inconsistencies. “Dont eat animals, don’t support the harm of animals.”

Yes it is, why is your line animals? Why are oysters so obviously worthy of life but not complex plants and fungus? Vegans claim that just because an creatures nervous system is arranged different, it doesn’t mean that it’s not worthy of life. Why does this not extend to complex plants and fungi?

That phrase describes the lines I draw in my personal consumption of animals. I said previously that vegans don’t eat animals.

I agree with vegans on 90% of things but the vegan position is ultimately arbitrary on what’s allowed and disallowed.

Vegans, generally speaking, do not eat any animals. Oysters are not vegan despite the fact that they do not have a brain and their nervous system is extremely simple, they are more or less meat plants. They do not suffer nor have anything in which suffering could be inflicted. If such a simple creature is worthy of life, then most plants we eat are also worthy of life. If not, then veganism is not a moral imperative.

As demonstrated, the line that vegans draw around the animal kingdom is mostly arbitrary. Eating cows and other mammals is absolutely a bad thing. Poultry is a gray area. Most seafood is probably safe to eat. The fact that I’m called a blood-mouth for eating oysters makes me skeptical of whether some vegans are arguing in good faith. If someone’s righteous indignation on what shouldn’t be eaten ends at animals arbitrarily, then I think their views are based more on a social clique than science.

I do think they are better than the average person though even if their views are inconsistent.

I’m not an expert in psychology, but straight up denying reality has to be a worse strategy than just admitting Biden is senile.

Yeah, but the mechanics really push you towards certain builds. Bosses are too fast so 90% of the time you can’t use slower, heavier weapons effectively.

I also didn’t like how they went hard on “long wind up but extremely quick execution” for lots of boss attacks. In DS1 and DS2, you can kinda dodge attacks on instinct alone if your reaction times are good. In Elden Ring, you just have to remember the timing on the attacks which isn’t that engaging. Eventually, I just used my first attempt on ER bosses to kite the boss and study their patterns.

Joe getting covid, spreading it to Trump, and killing them both would be the one thing that could save America.

And I do think it’s reasonable to say (correct me if I’m wrong) that Trump is the furthest right GOP candidate for at least several decades.

Trump just says the quiet part out loud. He’s more or less a traditional republican, just more outwardly racist. In some ways, the fact that he’s an idiot with no loyalty beyond himself has lead to him being slightly less horrible in a few ways than a competent republican would be.

I’m starting to wonder if the implicit assumption here is that if Biden wins, Trump and his base will be essentially defeated.

Liberals have been pulling the “lesser of two evils” shtick since the 70’s. I’m not saying your wrong, they certainly do think this way. But they would think so regardless of whom the republican candidate would end up being.

Listen to cumtown, that’s unironically where 70% of this site’s humor comes from.

Everything looks just fine on 1337 and gogunlocked.