yourguidefortheday

yourguidefortheday t1_j8c8s0h wrote

Reply to Farm (ballpoint pen) by tylerd9000

These pigs are making human farming way too hard on themselves. All those humans still have ALL their fingers? That's a good way to get runaway livestock and sabotaged equipment. Any decent human farmer will tell you that humans are very smart - nearly as smart as we pigs are - and precautions /need/ to be put in place to ensure they don't injure themselves, other humans, or even you. At minimum cropping off of the thumbs from each hand is recommended, with full removal of one or both hands suggested for more troublesome livestock. Now some say this stresses them out and makes lower quality meat. The little guys like to use their hands for eating because they don't have a snout to get at their food with, I guess that just goes to show why we're higher on the food chain. But the small decrease in quality from stress can be corrected by slaughtering when they're younger, and more tender anyway.

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yourguidefortheday t1_itzf1yv wrote

Reply to The Ego Siphon, by me by GenericOnlineName

This reminds me exactly of a conversation I had once where a religious friend asked me "what if you COULD literally see God? Then would you believe?" And my answer was something along the lines of "what exactly would I be seeing? A big bearded man in the sky? Even if I had assurances that I wasn't hallucinating, I would assume it's some sort of elaborate trap set by some hostile force or alien species to take advantage of humanities proclivity for faith."

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