(November 6, 2014 at 7:08 am)miniboes Wrote: Note that I said minimize suffering, not eliminate suffering. To say that because you can't eliminate animal suffering you might as well not try is like saying you can't stop all sexual abuse so you might as well buy child porn and rape the next woman you meet.
Seriously?
Even if that was an accurate summation of what Rhythm said (hint: it's not) it would still be a blatantly obvious false equivocation. You are equating a lack of motivation to act on one side with proactively working to exacerbate the problem on the other.
In order to balance the equation, you need to reword either the left side as "because you can't eliminate animal suffering you might as well promote animal cruelty and maim the next animal you meet"; or the right side as "you can't stop sexual abuse so you might as well not try".
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