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Imagine going to jail for breaking the law!

A country where smoking weed "breaks the law" doesn't sound free at all

As it currently stands, the morally correct option for food production would probably be for a large amount of the population to starve. That, of course, is also not entirely morally correct.

Considering almost 1.5 billion adults in the world are overweight it wouldn't be so bad to let some people starve.

Guess what, most if not all veggies and vegans are also doing something morally dubious at best. Factory farming, extensive farming, they’re all bad for the soil, bad for native wildlife, bad for native plants. The societal impacts of factory farming are also not small. In the end, the moral lines people draw are mostly at different places, neither is undoubtedly better than the other.

Animals needs to eat and drink too, the meat industry has the highest tool on the farming industry.

I have personally tried to give up meat twice, once for 6 months and once for a year. On both cases my health suffered massively for it, and I went back to eating meat. I had a cousin who was, for many years, a hardcore vegetarian. She was also of the opinion that eating meat was wrong. A few years ago she reintroduced fish in her diet to overcome health issues after fighting them for years. Most symptoms subsided in a handful of months. I believe she now also eats beef, although infrequently and in small quantities. I’m sorry to be that guy but reality is more complex than whatever moral line any one of us would like to draw. You’re not wrong but it would behoove you to acquire some nuance on your thoughts.

It sound like your diet was off, if you don't eat animal products you need valid alternatives to complete and balance your diet. In cultures shaped around animal products it may not be automatic or easy to find alternatives. Our ancestors diet for example had less meat and more lentils, in countries were they consume less meat you are most likely to find popular dish with other proteins sources.

So much land of the free that you go to jail for smoking weed in most EU countries.

"There are thus no European Rasputins pumping untold millions into political campaigns"

There's plenty of them, that's how most elections are won here too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silvio_Berlusconi

Europe is as "free" as russia or usa or china: as long as you conform and do as authorities say you are free. Try to cross that line (like protesting against the genocide in palestine) and the government will beat and arrest you.

This has nothing to do with developing, in the thread you are calling him out for not working enough on the software.

You are using lemmy for free thanks to the work of dessalines among others. You really shouldn't call him out on developing, if you want something done you are free to do it yourself.

Don't waste your time with reddit. Search around and you will find servers with smarter mods than .world or .lm

The issue at hand is that they are suspected of being involved in a violent occupation attempt of a university building that caused 100.000€ in damages and during which employees were threatened.

The government of germany is supporting a genocide where innocent kids are being murdered daily, this is the context of protests. To me it sound like these protesters are working for justice much more than you or your government are doing.

What’s with this fixation on rape metaphors?

People fail to realize how evil billionares are and so you have to come up with stupid comparisons. A billion in money is the equivalent of owning hundred of thousands cars or houses, they affect society negatively more than a single murderer would do. Criminality and people losing their shit is partially the result of a society where people are exploited and turn against each other to make profits. Billionares are the ones who sit on top of this rigged pyramid.

if the fairy god mother appeared right now and offered you $1b you would instantly become “one of the greediest human beings on the planet” by your own definition.

Any normal person that wins a billion dollar would keep some for himself and gift or donate the rest with the result that they wouldn't be a billionare anymore. A billion is simply a ridiculous amount of money, you could buy a castle, invest 100 millions in the stock market and you would still be left with most of it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriot_act

hmmm I am increasingly believing how ineffective the USA would be against a real enemy… the USA loves to chicken hawk on third world countries on the other side of the planet…

How do you think they chicken hawk people on the other side of the planet? Are you aware of the scale of USA army and what they do?

they are still in the trillion range even after cuts

"In a world filled with rapists one who raped only a woman is less terrible than someone who raped 10."

Yes, no shit that he's less terrible compared to others but he's still one of the greediest human being on the planet and he doesn't deserve any praise.