Welp, I’m not buying any Magic Leap shit then. Saudis can fuck right off and so can Magic Leap

You say that like it’s a bad thing

I’m not sure about plants, either. Their reactions might just be at a slower rate. Check this out:

https://allthatsinteresting.com/plants-defense-mechanism

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/507590v4

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00442-014-2995-6

In the entire history of life, do you think there’s ever been an organism that doesn’t want to live?

But only after ritually feeding some part of yourself to the carnivorous plant. And we could compete on how hardcore committed we are by how much of ourselves we fed to the plants we’re eating

So there’s a line somewhere, on the other side of which is guilt-free meat? Is it an oyster? Lobster? Pigeon? Shrimp? Octopus? Dog? And why does eating plants get a pass? There’s as good a reason to think a houseplant is as self aware as there is for say a lobster.

I don’t have any answers, just find this question fascinating

I expect our options will become more constrained for the next few decades, more people will live in conditions we would today call desperate. I wonder what those feelings of desperation will do to these kind of moralistic arguments. Or even just the fear of falling to a position of feeling that desperation.

If you’re comparing yourself to someone else, you’ve already lost