So, I asked Andrew Tamm, who filled my Stream with a hundred (sarcasm there) animated gifs and cat pictures to remove me from whatever Circle he has me in where he posts the animated gifs and cat pictures. It was either that or unfollow him and I didn't see any reason to unfollow him. Me asking https://plus.google.com/112885755521259735422/posts/78dwnvvgh4p Then he plusses me onto Public posts of animated cat gifs : https://plus.google.com/u/0/112885755521259735422/posts/EuuR1tnU3vJ https://plus.google.com/u/0/112885755521259735422/posts/8r6Grcm2Jpj https://plus.google.com/u/0/112885755521259735422/posts/74PgSu6iL2s Then one of his friends (or Circlers) starts plussing me into posts of animated cat gifs : https://plus.google.com/u/0/107120198886093172821/posts/gRW9JhWLs5T Don't get me wrong, I'm all about sarcasm and messing with people, but this seems sort of childish to me. Am I the only one who thinks so? So far I have only blocked people who have overtly spammed a thr...
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I for one would certainly not care as much if they were pigeons (or chickens or fish or cattle). The morality of the subject is tricky, but I have come to the conclusion that it is directly related to levels of sentience, in particular suffering and mourning.
Dogs are much more intelligent and self-aware than those other animals, and to me it crosses the line of morality to consider them as food. Other people will position their line differently, but mine would cut off dogs, cats, apes, dolphins, & possibly even horses and elephants.
I'm almost on the fence about pigs, but dammit that would mean giving up bacon so I'm really sorry, pigs. :P
Haven't seen the stuff you refer to about cows... was under the impression they are fairly dumb in the scheme of things...
We could always just go with fish, and perhaps chicken, which we know to have very little self-awareness?