“What’s an analogy”?

You shifted your goalpost from “are you a doctor?” To “can you prove you’re a doctor?”

After I told you that it doesn’t matter.

Attempting to save face after being called out is a hedging of bets.

Mate… Cmon now… Don’t be silly please, this is getting embarrassing, and frankly, a waste of both of our time…

Also, your reply to me also might constitute a crime.

Go grind your axe somewhere else dingdong.

Can I ask why you’re hedging your bets on a fallacy?

Whether I’m a certified psychologist has no bearing on whether a scientific consensus is regarded as a fact.

Imagine if you said “climate change is real” and I said “oh yeah? How do you know? You’re not a scientist, where did you get your PhD in meteorology?”

That’s a fucking moronic thing to say, don’t you think?

Further reading for your consideration

Here’s a question: did you look up whether what I said was regarded as a psychological fact?

What I explained is a well known phenomenon, it’s called psychic numbing.

You think it’s a strawman because you aren’t picking up what I’m laying down.

I’m addressing the mechanism behind the reaction which the first comment described. The emotional diffusion happens because empathy scales poorly with numbers, not because the victims are animals and not humans.

Replacing the animals with many humans would produce the same effect.

It’s an analogy about the cognitive response to scale, not a misrepresetation (strawman) of the claim that it reduces the emotional impact.

What I’m trying to illustrate is that there is a bias for the human emotional weight which is conflicting with the fact the emotional weight has been diffused.

It’s interesting you should say that…

Imagine if the second part wasn’t a group of animals, but a group of people.

How would it make you feel?

There’s an interesting dynamic here where the level of empathy for the total sum is diffused across the set.

Consider it this way:

Imagine if I told you there was a little girl, her name is Sarah, and she’s starving right now after her parents sold her into slavery to buy rations.

If you’re not a psychopath, you’ve got some degree of empathy for Sarah and would likely to be swayed to contribute a few dollars to a gofundme, if you knew it could help her somehow.

Now what if I told you there are thousands of girls with stories like that, and I’ve made a foundation to helping them, but I just need a few dollars.

Notice how your level of empathy drops, the more people you add in. Eventually you get to the point where it’s hard to give any empathy to the individual, and you just shrug and say “that’s the world we live in.”

Now imagine you’re the one contributing to the slave trade.

That’s what it’s like to pay for meat.

“Eating meat is normal, yeah it might cause some suffering, but it tastes so good”

Beeaaaannnns and rice

(And some spices)

I know you don’t get 20 years for littering…

But maybe…

Just hear me out…

You should?

Go to jail

Do you think Clouds Buster-sword was based on the guillotine?

He’s a revolutionary who busts his way into the ivory tower, looking for gillionaires

I think they meant disability.

Also, a boots on the ground invasion is a non starter.

The mountainous terrain gives the home team a very strong position, and is one of the reasons China can’t just take Taiwan.

Have you tried flossing?

By saying you will always be female, he’s distinguishing between biology and culture.

By explicitly stating “female” and not “woman”, he’s accidentally validated you.

Not to mention a tiny fucking hole in them is one of the the most painful experiences in life which only ends if you see a dentist, wait for it to rot, or rip the tooth out yourself.

And that’s not even mentioning how fucked the average persons diet is, it’s practically guaranteed to happen eventually, without intervention.

Then why do they have a soundbar?

Protip on the cheese substitutes:

If you want that shit to melt, wet it first.

You see that vegan slice of cheese? Run it under the tap before using it.

given that it’s not real money

No money is “real”

Video game currencies technically hold just as much value as fiat currencies in theory.