Mastodon auto-formtting mangled the link from the previous post. Not really any good way around it, unfortunately: It’s an interaction between plugins unaware of each other’s existence. ò_ó

A thread today on Lemmy asks: https://lemmy.world/post/48267298

"Why do people condemn Zoophilia on the basis of other animal’s inability to consent but those same people kill animals without asking for their consent? Why such inconsistency?"

Holy crap are people more zoo-tolerant than Reddit! What you get when you don’t have corporate mods.

The consensus is that eating meat and condeming zoophilia is incoherent. THANK YOU, THAT’S WHAT WE’VE BEEN SAYING THIS WHOLE TIME!

I would, of course, dispute that animals cannot consent, otherwise you lose basically all basis for any kind of mutual interaction with animals as equals. We need to respect the ability of animals to have and express preferences, and sometimes animals get horny too. But, that’s a bit much to expect from a general public discussion that assumes as a premise they can’t. Still, the needle moves…

What’s funny is that this isn’t even a tech blog. I like talking about it, but I really just want to show up when you search for "zoophile tech blog".