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Cyanide & Happiness

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Hello fellow Cyanide and Happiness fans!

Cyanide & Happiness (C&H) is a webcomic created by Rob DenBleyker, Kris Wilson, Dave McElfatrick and Matt Melvin. The comic has been running since 2005 and is published on the website explosm.net along with animated shorts in the same style. Matt Melvin left C&H in 2014, and several other people have contributed to the comic and to the animated shorts

Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyanide_%26_Happiness

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History

@[email protected] started this community and wrote:

About this community and how I post the comics… Many moons ago, I would ask my Dad to save the newspaper for me everyday so I could read my favorite comic strips. Of course these days you can read your favorite comics online instead of a newspaper, but I love the nostalgia of reading the daily comics. Anyway, one of my favorite current comics is Cyanide and Happiness and I will be posting the daily release from their website (https://explosm.net/) and a an extra or two randoms.

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All comics posted are freely available online. In no way is the poster claiming ownership, copyright or anything else. This is a not for profit community, we just want to enjoy our comics, thank you.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 19 hours ago

It's for scientific research though.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 23 hours ago

Those Japanese bruh they savage.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Crazy that some seem to suggest you can't care about whales heading towards extinction without being a level 6 Vegan.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago

Yup. I’m very opposed to whaling - they’re magnificent creatures - but I’m not giving up my hamburger any time soon.

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

I mean you can, you're just somewhat of a hypocrite

How much experience does it take to level up, btw?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

you're right, I should actually support whaling.

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

If there were fish artists, do you think they would draw depressing pictures of whales obliterating entire colonies just to feed themselves, or humans doing the same for entire ecosystems?

I'm all for taking better care of our ecosystems, but let's face it, a lot of animals are assholes whose lives literally depends on preying on other animals. I also don't like to hear plants scream: https://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/24473/20191218/a-group-of-scientists-suggest-that-plants-feel-pain.htm

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Here's the difference: humans are unique in our understanding of these systems and have the empathy and ability to make better choices.

I wouldn't expect a whale to track the ethical and environmental impacts of its pod's consumption, not because it shouldn't, but because it literally does not have the intellectual capacity to do so.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The environment has been shaped by countless extinctions over millennia. The environment does not need white knights, it simply is. Another entirely is what we would like it to be. A whale "tracking the ethical and environmental impacts of its pod’s consumption" would be at a competitive disadvantage to those who don't. specially given that they are carnivores who don't have the privilege of omnivore white knighting. Not eating meat is them dying en masse unless one of them is able to survive off of plants somehow, if at all. Bulls will skewer anyone who go near their territory, and they are herbivores, nature does not share your concerns not because of intellectual capacity but because they don't need to.

We can track the ethical and environmental impacts, but we only do so within our own perspective. It is a trait of any animal to show empathy for that which they do care about, and ignorance and even disdain for that which they do not. People who care about the feelings of animals, feelings they do have, do so because they have the luxury of not becoming fodder. Not only people, but animals in captivity who are fed and need not worry about where their food or if they are food have been shown to express this notion as well.

Life exists to survive. Don't think your ethical and environmental concerns will afford you likewise considerations from other animals, from humans to whales alike. Just because you feel and because they feel does not mean they will care. You pick your fights, you want to care about whales, you might end up caring too much about everything before ever finding yourself getting kicked to the ground because of a dystopian hellscape that was too out of focus for you coming from your own species. Will you ask if the concerns you chose to erect walls around helped you out then?

Our ecosystems are doomed to change just as we are, but we should not accelerate their change unless we are ready to change ourselves. Unfortunately, the entire ocean is changing now, and if anything major governments driven by profits have made sure we are not ready to change. F-ing whaling is the least of my worries nowadays because so much more has become concerning.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

To be fair, a lot of humans also seem to lack the intellectual capacity to consider the ethical implications of their consumption, specially when confronted with the unimaginable cruelty and suffering we cause to animals just to eat something tasty with low individual effort.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 day ago
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