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Cake day: April 25th, 2023

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  • That’s kind of an absurd statement, isn’t it?

    If you murder me by shooting me in the back of the head while I’m not looking, that’s not torture.

    Obviously I still don’t want you to kill me, but… It’s still not torture, it’s a different thing, and we have different words for that… it’s murder, or killing, or slaughter.

    Please keep in mind I’m not making a moral or ethical judgement, but a definitional one. Torture is a different thing.

    If, as you say

    there’s no way to avoid torturing an animal while taking their life when they don’t want to die.

    How are you defining torture?

    Did I torture my dearly beloved pets when they had cancer or infections bad enough that I had to have them put down? No! What an odd and cruel thing that would be for me to say!

    But they still didn’t want to die, and I didn’t want them to either. That’s not torture.


















  • This is likely the most asinine thing I hear on a regular basis. Speed limits exist for a reason. If driving the speed limit actually created a hazard, rather than simply creating an annoyance for someone who is willing to drive recklessly to shave a few seconds off their trip, you might have a point, but you don’t.

    The only circumstance where it creates a hazard is if everyone else around them is speeding, in which case, the people who are speeding are creating the hazard, not the person following the laws, you know, the ones that are there to enforce safety on the roads.