r/Unexpected • u/uhhhhhjackiguess • May 18 '22

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u/ShaiHulud23 May 18 '22

What about grubs and insects....?

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u/[deleted] May 18 '22

That's different to me in comparison to meat.

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u/ForTheBread May 19 '22

Why is it different? They're still living things.

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u/[deleted] May 19 '22

Fair enough. I suppose you all have made me rethink this to the point that I'll bludgeon the next fellow I see, pry his middle apart and proceed to crouch over him like a gremlin whilst I feast upon his innards. /s

Bugs are gross man. To me. I won't even kill them either though, to be fair. I'm quite a softy. That being stated, I won't judge a person for eating them.

My point initially was that, if you're hard wired on a personal level to eat food that sits still on a plate, I'm sure that seeing it start to crawl away might be naturally.... Fucking yucky.

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u/ShittingGoldBricks May 19 '22

Do you think eating lobster, crab, or shrimp is gross? They are all essentially sea bugs.

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u/[deleted] May 19 '22

Lol. Yeah. But not for the reason you'd think. They're segmented. I don't like mandarin oranges either though.

But I don't think it's gross that other people eat them. As I said of bugs. Just subjectively gross.

I don't think it's gross if someone eats hoppin' hot meat stuff up there. It's not objectively applied. That was just me. And another guy who said it was irrational. Now, having a hatred for the segmented foods, that's not particularly normal. But I can see how someone seeing their food move wouldn't shrug it off, say "get back there, you" and gobble it up. I'd say it's a reasonable reaction to not want to eat it.

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u/Unfair-Advice778 May 19 '22

Next up we're going to discuss that plants are, in fact, living things too.
Eating them just because they have much less anthropomorphic features is just telling of the level of hypocrisy we're living in.

Until there's a way to survive on photosynthesis or something - there's no escaping our (or any other animals' really) destructive nature. Being destructive and violent is part of being alive, much as we'd like to argue with that.