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[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

is that no one gets outraged, justifys harassing people and wished death upon their entire family and country for eating pigs.

You uh... wanna bet about that one?

Values a culture finds truly abhorrent are combated. You're using the same arguments people use to defend confederate monuments, or anti-LGBT laws. It's tragic that your traditions cause harm, but just because they're traditional and your culture doesn't mean they're not disgustingly cruel.

Yeah, we need to either stop or wildly reform factory farming. No argument there. But just because you think it's cultural imperialism doesn't make it reasonable to torture other creatures to death.

The big difference here is that, while I will absolutely admit to and work damn hard to change my own culture, you can't even admit the cruelty inherent to your own traditions. My tribe used to hunt whales. We saw the barbarity of it. We stopped. Why are you special?