I think if an animal is treated with respect and appreciation, raising it for food is fine. I do, however, find highly silly is when people get overly zealous about omnivorism OR vegetarianism. It is proven that either can support both healthy and unhealthy lifestyles, in a number of ways. I wouldn't mind continuing the debate about the damages caused by both livestock farming and agribusiness, and how neither are really sustainable in their present forms, but maybe in another thread... I see three hot topics here, all of which could meander into a downard spiral of Forum Flame. Let's not turn this into a soapbox for preaching the Word of Meat to the vegetarians, nor vice versa.
(I'm debating this with you only because it's interesting. If you'd prefer I didn't, I'll stop.)
I'd actually felt bad about derailing the thread and such, but I've been enjoying the discussion so far (Bio/Psych major here, so this is the sort of musing I occupy myself with anyway
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Also, doing your own thing is highly respectable; it's the only way to be! Normalcy is an illusion that we tend to cling to, as an anchor by which to measure our differences... some people end up treating it as an ideal instead, though, which renders them unhappy and dysfunctional in trying to be people who they aren't.
It certainly explains why women are considered more 'intuitive' then men. At least in general.
You could argue that it has to do with gender, though many of the differences we assume are hard-coded genetically are more a product of social pressures put on young boys and girls, rather than a genetic disposition. Hormones do, however, play a role in how we think, and face challenges. I'm mid to low on the testosterone scale, have been told I'm rather effeminate for a guy: concordantly I tend toward intuition and rational understanding rather than "Grrr Smash" problem solving.
Social experiment over; Gender = Male. Someone assumed I was female a few weeks back, and I did nothing to support or combat the assumption, and within a few weeks 3/5 people on the forum referred to me as she. Whether this was a product of group-pressure, or some unknown effeminate mannerisms I can't say. A pronoun is a pronoun to me, but it was a weird thing to see how people received what I said differently than before.
...also, if just for a short time, I finally knew what it felt like to be loved by Teh Internets...
It might have more to do with Myers-Briggs archetypes than gender, though. I straddle the boarder between INTP/INFP, which puts me somewhere between Absentminded Professor and Idealist. I tend to internalize knowledge so that it becomes second nature, but unless a lot of other knowledge is built on top of it, I tend to leave my assumptions mutable.
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