• commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    4 months ago

    Why is my position of respecting consent and not exploiting animals absurd,

    i think it’s fine to oppose exploitation. it’s absurd to premise that opposition on consent.

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      4 months ago

      I wouldn’t say that I premise exploitation on consent. Afterall I’m being exploited at a minimum wage job, and that is something that I more or less consented to.

      But in the case of animals, consent has to play a significant role, because a core part of their oppression is the complete absence of their bodily autonomy. There is a great deal of intersectionality between women’s rights and non-human animal’s rights.

      https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Sexual_Politics_of_Meat.html?id=aU28CgAAQBAJ

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        3 months ago

        I wouldn’t say that I premise exploitation on consent.

        i’m saying you premise your opposition to exploitation on consent. and i’m saying that’s absurd.

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          3 months ago

          I wouldn’t say that consent is the premise of my opposition, just one important component of it. I don’t remember this discussion so well anymore, but earlier you had pointed out that exploited workers often do consent to their exploitation - and I would agree that exploitation can occur even with consent.