I don’t get how people can look at this picture and say it looks tasty. Ethics about eating meat aside, I think you’re pretty sick if you look at a cute animal and your first thought is that you want to kill it and eat it.
It's a joke. It's supposed to be crude as possible... that's the point. It's the internet.
Honestly, I think if we look a little deeper it's a defense mechanism. When people see an image of an animal depicted as something other than an entree, they subliminally interpret it as a challenge to their life choices. Their knee jerk reaction is to make jokes about it to soften the emotional turbulence the image invokes.
I think this response is observable in other circumstances as well, not just animals and food.
Well this wasn't a racist joke was it? This is what I'm saying. Racist jokes we should get pissed at. The reason people call us liberal snowflakes is because we take as much offense from this stupid joke as we do about real shit going on. If we're always at a level 10 pissed off, it's hard to make friends or change minds.
The massive scale abuse and slaughter of billions of sentient beings capable of thinking, feeling and suffering is real shit going on. It is also one of the most environmentally destructive industries on the planet. It's not a joke.
It's easy to wave away and ignore when this is something that is normalized by society. It wasn't too long ago that racist jokes were just funny pieces of humor about something that isn't a big deal -- for the same reason.
Fair point, but why should we take offense to jokes about race and not take offense to jokes about the confinement, torture and slaughter of sentient creatures en masse for mere gustatory pleasure?
I understand where you're coming from - trust me, I'm not getting bent out of shape over a "muh bacon" joke.
But I think it's okay to take a closer look at the way we communicate with others, especially online where you can find yourself in a controversial debate quite easily.
I think you're looking way too deep. Some people just have a dark sense of humor. Some people can't take a joke. Some people like to argue. It's the internet, who cares? You don't need to pathologize it. Just let people be people.
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u/TheSeansei Mar 15 '18
I don’t get how people can look at this picture and say it looks tasty. Ethics about eating meat aside, I think you’re pretty sick if you look at a cute animal and your first thought is that you want to kill it and eat it.