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    23 months ago

    Ok, I get you now. That’s just obtuse pedantry. If the demand for animal products goes down, so will supply. This gives an individual the power to lower supply, to choose not to has the same overall effect as killing a few animals. The distinction doesn’t matter. Your actions have consequences whether you like it or not. Animal ag cannot survive without money and whenever you buy animal products you are giving it to them.

    • Victoria Antoinette
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      03 months ago

      This gives an individual the power to lower supply,

      no, it doesn’t.

        • Victoria Antoinette
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          03 months ago

          and you can see that we have each presented and equal amount of proof.

            • Victoria Antoinette
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              13 months ago

              you’re the one proposing a causal mechanism. it is on you to provide evidence. simply disbelieving (or suspending judgement) is the only rational course until evidence is provided.

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            13 months ago

            I mean it’s been tested. When there was no money in VHS they stopped making them. How is this not making sense to you?

            • Victoria Antoinette
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              When there was no money in VHS they stopped making them.

              post hoc, ergo propter hoc

                • Victoria Antoinette
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                  13 months ago

                  it’s a fallacious form of reasoning where claiming that the correlation of events implies causation. “it happened after, therefore it was caused by” as in… veganism increased with policing and surveillance.

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                    13 months ago

                    Do you really need this one spelt out? Sales declined and then production followed. The goal of the business was to make money so when their product stopped making money they stopped producing it.

                    What would you do in the same situation? The logic seems incredibly cut and dry and you keep insisting I need to give you proof, but I’d like to see evidence of the opposite happening to be honest.

    • Victoria Antoinette
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      03 months ago

      That’s just obtuse pedantry.

      this is a thought-terminating cliche.

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        23 months ago

        Obtuse pedantry is definitely thought terminating. When you just word spaghetti your way out of any argument or dismiss it uncritically instead of actually engaging with it.

        • Victoria Antoinette
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          my comments are concise, and i don’t require “word spaghetti” to explain flaws in your arguments.

    • Victoria Antoinette
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      If the demand for animal products goes down, so will supply

      that’s not causal, and, also not what the theory of supply and demand says. the theory says that the price will decrease, not that production will.

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        23 months ago

        That’s why when nobody wanted vhs anymore they just kept making them at the exact same rate for less and less money. They’re still producing billions of vhs players every year and selling them at huge losses because wikipedia said something about supply and demand. You’ve cracked the code, you’re morally in the clear now, you found the magic words that absolve you of all personal responsibility. Hoorayyyyyyyy.

            • Victoria Antoinette
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              13 months ago

              “influences” is a pretty weasley word. show me a formula that actually (as in, verifiably) predicts how “demand” (a pretty weasley word itself) influences supply (probably the only concept for which we will be able to produce quantifiable numbers)

                • Victoria Antoinette
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                  how do you quantify demand and can you show me a case where it has ever been true?

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                    13 months ago

                    ok, I used to eat animal products, but then I decided it wasn’t nice and so I stopped supplying them to myself.