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[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 year ago (3 children)

If horseshoe crabs were to become less economically important, is that a good thing for horseshoe crabs? They ain't exactly Pandas, so will little Sally and Bobby care if horseshoe crabs become endangered? They're already in a precarious situation...

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Horseshoe crabs have been existing for almost half a billion years, I would genuinely be sad if we endanger them to critical levels

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Climate Change is warming the waters they spawn their eggs in. They're becoming endangered from that. Not because of a few we harvest blood from.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I didn't say that harvesting blood is the one thing endangering them, did I. Just that it would be a shame to see them go

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's the topic of this thread and even if you didn't say blood harvesting was endangering them, most people are already going to be thinking that's what you're implying.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's a fair assumption to make, true.
Idk, I'm just someone who says things exactly the way I think 'em. I don't intend for a deeper meaning to be interpreted, but people are going to do that, because that's just how people are. So again, fair.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

But the blood harvesting helps. Huh. Never thought I'd use the word "blood harvest" today, or ever really.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think living to have your fluids harvested in factory farms is a worse outcome than going extinct.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Personally speaking, the fluid in question and method of harvest would determine how much I'd rather be dead.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

if things got to brain in a jar levels and I am complacently accepting of the fake reality, then I might just live a long life

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You can not prove your brain isn't already in a jar being fed signals to simulate reality.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If you are any part of nature and also economically important, you get barbarically exploited until you go extinct. If you are not, you will be bulldozed to make room for the former. Capitalism is the best system of morality humans have ever, and will ever, come up with, and I truly cherish the utopia it has brought upon civilization.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Capitalism isn't a system of morality. Or at least it isn't supposed to be.

The fact that people think more money = moral is one of the largest problems in the world right now.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I'm pretty sure it was sarcastic.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

all hail the paper which ruins literally every single fucking thing. the paper has spoken.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I chose to express it like that by design. My contention is that capitalism is, in fact, or at the very least de facto, a system of morality. It promotes wealth as an indicator of higher moral stature. It has superseded rule of democracy, as wealth has been assigned itself as a metric by which the efficacy of individual civil participation is measured and the path of society determined.

In other words, money equals power, and possessing money/power is indicative of a higher moral. Echoes of medieval times...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Cows and chickens are doing pretty well in terms of raw numbers.