Comment by tonymet
5 days ago
fertilizer smells. it also pollutes water ways.
I'm not trying to be negative. I'm trying to point out that vegans are selective in their complaints.
5 days ago
fertilizer smells. it also pollutes water ways.
I'm not trying to be negative. I'm trying to point out that vegans are selective in their complaints.
You're strawmaning here. You can take any cause and point the selectiveness of the "people that care of that cause" by putting them in a bag and choosing the bag arguments to argument with.
Was the conversation above an exception to the rule?
It’s not indeed, however while you’re not trying to be negative, what you say sounds like so: "I’m trying to point X are Y" where Y is a characteristic of most humans and not just X. “pointing” X sounds like that group is more Y than the rest of humans. I don’t know if that’s you’re intent (probably not as you said you’re not trying to be negative), but the pointing sounds like it is. Your previous message pointing that growing plant kill animals sounds the same as most activities kill animals (walking in the woods, driving, probably watching Netflix in some extend…). I know you’re responding to someone coming first with the killing topic but I think that’s not a good faith interpretation of their post: they said much more, and also “even if we don't eliminate it entirely". The "natural" grazers around your place where probably the kind of farming that they propose to not eliminate. Don’t feel attacked, it’s not on you or your friends.
> Please don't pick the most provocative thing in an article or post to complain about in the thread. Find something interesting to respond to instead.