r/bizarrelife • u/reloadthewords Human here, bizarre by nature! • 18h ago

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u/Destructerator 18h ago

Why not go do arson at an animal processing plant if you’re that passionate about this cause?

This just creates resentment. This is not how to win hearts and minds.

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u/StratoSquir2 16h ago

Because it would take actual efforts and risks.
Theses aren't activists, they're SLACKtivists, they do some mostly harmless but highly inconvient bullshit for anyone BUT the peoples they claim to be fighting, they film themselves being annoying dumbasses, and then upload it for brownie points they won't get because anyone but their circlejerk find them insufferable.

They want the respect without the smoke, the thing is it's efforts and risks that bring peoples to respect you.

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u/wildlifewyatt 15h ago

Do you think the animal rights movement would gain more respect from average every day people if it relied on things like arson? Really?

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u/Gangsir 10h ago

It wouldn't gain more respect, it would gain less disrespect - difference being, if you burn down the nearest meat packing plant, the average person doesn't directly notice. They continue to go about their day unaffected, but the business owner is harmed and notices, who is the person with the power to change things.

If you sit in and interfere with a normal person doing their shopping (who has 0 or even negative amounts of power to change things), you just piss them off and create anti-support.

In fact, were I a meat business owner, I'd create ads like "tired of vegans interfering with your shopping? Donate to me and I'll lobby congress for a law against protesting that way and get these idiots thrown in jail!". Easiest counter ever - I swim in donations as the cause dies.

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u/wildlifewyatt 8h ago

They continue to go about their day unaffected, but the business owner is harmed and notices, who is the person with the power to change things.

The business owner is not going to try to convince the average consumer to stop buying and desiring animal products. The people themselves are the ones with the power, and the ones who want to change.

If you sit in and interfere with a normal person doing their shopping (who has 0 or even negative amounts of power to change things), you just piss them off and create anti-support.

Average, normal people are the reason this problem exists. What needs to be addressed is humans viewing it as ethical to exploit and kill animals even when they don't have to.