Vegans being banned and comments being deleted from !vegan@lemmy.world for being fake vegans.

From my perspective, the comments were in no way insulting and just part of completely normal interaction. If this decision reflects the general opinion of the mod team, then from my perspective, the biggest vegan community on Lemmy wants to be an elitist cycle of hardcore vegans only, not allowing any slightly different opinion. Which would be very unfortunate.

PS: In contrast to the name of this community, I don’t want to insult anyone here being a ‘bastard’. I just want to post this somewhere on neutral ground. I would really appreciate an open discussion without bashing anyone.

Linking the affected users and mods: @Cypher@lemmy.world @gaael@lemmy.world @gredo@lemmy.world @iiGxC@slrpnk.net @veganpizza69@lemmy.world @veganpizza69@lemmy.vg @jerkface@lemmy.ca @TheTechnician27@lemmy.world @Sunshine@lemmy.ca @Aqua@lemmy.vg

  • Snot FlickermanEnglish
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    5 hours ago

    I cannot even prove that rocks do not suffer, therefore it is worthless to prove the absence of suffering

    This take is a big fucking YIKES from someone who claims to care about living things.

    • yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de
      1·
      2 hours ago

      Just saw your comment, I meant it in terms of that the absence of something is often impossible to prove, therefore it is a worthless metric. The metric that should be looked at is whether something is showing indication of suffering.

      I couldn’t even prove humans are capable of suffering either. You can prove that pain manifests itself through activation of certain brain regions but that doesn’t prove the existence of suffering. It’s like trying to prove that the color red is accurately visualized in your brain.

      • Snot FlickermanEnglish
        1·
        5 hours ago

        Oops, I meant the person you were responding to, sorry buddy. I’m on your side here. I’m sorry I wasn’t more clear.

        The fact that they compare other living things to rocks… just… wow. I edited it to make it more clear who I was referring to. Once again, my bad and I’m sorry friend.