• itslilith
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    10 hours ago

    ethical vegans (and not people who eat plant-based for nutritional reasons, and often get conflated with people doing it for ethics reasons) generally agree on one very simple rule:

    To reduce, as much as possible, the suffering inflicted upon animals.

    That’s it.

    Where that line is drawn of course depends on your personal circumstances. Some people require life-saving medicine that includes animal products, and are generally still considered vegan.

    I’d like to see what about this confuses you and your epistomology [sic, and that word doesn’t mean what you think it means]

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      10 hours ago

      I am not confused. I am curious and fascinated on how people come to their conclusions. I know exactly what epistomology means. I have used it for conversations with many vegans about their choices as well as on other personally held beliefs. I could be a lot better at it but it has helped me show that I am curious and respectful.

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        I’m curious, how do you use a branch of philosophy, that’s concerned with the abstract theory of knowledge and the limits of human reasoning, in conversations?

        it’s epistemology, btw