If you count humans as animals then cocaine and clothing from companies like Temu and Shein aren’t vegan.

Cocaine manufacturing and distribution is full of human exploitation and suffering. Using it should go against the vegan ethos of avoiding consumption of things that are the product of exploitation. Similar to honey, milk, or eggs.

Similarly, Shien and Temu make nearly all of their products using slave labor in terrible working conditions using dangerous chemicals without any precautions.

We should gather up all of the people that pushed the Palestinian genocide (including those that censored or shamed others for speaking up about it) and turn them into a gory pile of steaming meat using the weapons that they used on innocent Palestinians.

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IP? Do you mean imaginary property? If so, I agree. I think that ideas and culture should be shared. I understand the stated goal (protect individual inventors from being exploited by huge corporations) but that’s not how it’s played out. It’s used as a tool of control by powerful companies to stifle innovation. Ask any 3d printer hobbyist if they like stratysus. (I effing hate them) there should be some mechanism to protect inventors but this isn’t it.

I agree with your attitude about IP. For tens of thousands of years humans freely imitated every good idea they saw, in a process known as “the spread of civilization”. But then somebody figured out how to make shitloads of money by producing copies of other people’s work and paying them a pittance, aka “royalty”, and suddenly copying and imitation became immoral.

The purpose of an education is to learn how to think, not how to work.

A lot of universities are being treated as training centers for the world of work - and this is not ok.

Violence against oil company shareholders is justified defense of yourself and others. Starting with a face slap for small-time diversified 401k oil investors.

You can’t direguard anyone’s humanity. Even billionaires. There are no universally bad people, negativity is always relational.

Though I do think you can weigh a billionaire’s comfort against the folks they made billions from, and that may just be potent enough for the death penalty.

However, I don’t think punishment is a humane solution. Rehabilitation and integration are always preferred. Though again, some folks integrate best as corpses.

I totally agree. Intellectual property is a capitalist myth created only for the purpose of beating other people away from progress.

Any civilized society would believe in the free commerce of ideas.

What do you mean by IP?

Killing yourself is ok. You don’t know what it’s like to be them and be in their head.

I’ll never do it. Even in darkest depths, but respect anyone’s right to say peace out.

I was going to say “Copyright is theft” but I see that’s basically OPs take, so I’ll settle for ‘same’.

I have to agree IP is against nature but there’s not really any other way to route data over a network.

I agree with OP’s controversial opinion

Antinatalism: the belief that the creation of sentient life is morally wrong