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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted, clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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One of the biggest problem of humanity is that We are Animals pretending not to be Animals (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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And what are we pretending to be?

"Humans".

And what are Humans?

"Not animals, that's for sure!"

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

Uhhh I would strongly disagree with that being a mainstream belief

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Do you consume non-human animals? Then you are probably psychologically dependent on ignoring all the ways they are the same as we are. You probably believe there are lots of things that distinguish us, as long as you never think too closely about it, that make it morally permissible or even morally encouraged to exploit their bodies and pretend that they don't have a mind fundamentally like yours.

Being an animal means having animus. But we act as though we are the only creature having it; the only with interests, with thoughts and feelings, with desires and goals, that uses reason, that struggles with everything within us to live.

Do you actually have anything to say beyond, "I disagree", or are you (like most carnists) just psychologically required to obstruct your own inconvenient thoughts whenever they arise?