Originally Posted by
Burney
Well quite. It's impossible to justify prioritising the suffering of animals while living a modern life that invariably involves involvement in the suffering of millions of our fellow human beings. If you are using an iPhone to tweet about the iniquities of the dairy industry, you are effectively admitting that you care more about the suffering of cows than you do about the suffering of untold numbers of humans horribly exploited to facilitate your moral grandstanding. That to me is an ethically indefensible (indeed almost sociopathic) position and the selectivity of conscience involved in it requires a level of cognitive dissonance I find intellectually repugnant.
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