I guess that I disagree with the notion that it’s bad to feel a certain way. We cannot control how we feel, only how we act.

And frankly its just unrealistic to ask people to love mosquitos just as much as they love cats.

I don’t need to love an animal to acknowledge their capability to suffer and to try to avoid causing any suffering to that animal.

I went on a “tangent” rather than answering your question, because I don’t agree with the underlying assumption.

You asked if it was speciesist to prefer one species over another. By definition it is, thats just what speciesism is defined as. I have an issue with the underlying assumption that speciesism is

a) bad

and

b) the same as racism

I could’ve just said: “yes, that is indeed speciesist”, but that wouldn’t have gotten my point across.

Your last paragraph hosently doesn’t have anything to do with anything I said. I don’t care about morals, but I believe one shouldn’t cause any more suffering than necessary, that goes for humans and animals.

The point is though, treating them all equally doesn’t make any sense because based on their species they have different needs.

Some animals enjoy the company of humans, others do not. Some radiate a calmness that is appealing to some, while others have an enthusiasm that more fits other personalities. So when getting a pet, why would you ignore all that?

Should I get a crocodile as a pet just to treat them all the same? I wouldn’t be doing that crocodile any favour, nor myself.

I guess its that old “equality vs equity” debate all over again.

I’m a vegan, I don’t see why any of my points would have me support eating meat or other animal products. Check my comment history if you don’t believe me.

Not exactly like the ones you oncluded, but I really like this one: Challenger - Lemmino

You can call it speciesism if you want, but fish are just not quite as cuddly as cats. So if you like a pet thats cuddly, you will prefer cats over fish and admitting that is in no way problematic.

Equating speciesism with racism also doesn’t make a lot of sense to me. Species do exist in nature, they are hard boundaries which animals can breed. Races on the other hand are a made-up concept with no biological basis, used to distinguish between similar-looking groups within a species.

A fish and a cat cannot breed, as they are different species. A british shorthair and a sphynx on the other hand can, as the distinction is entirely artificial.

Racism is the wrong belief that races, like species are a biological concept that can be found in nature.

Speciesism differs from that, because different species do exist. For any two individual animals you can always determine if they belong to the same species, which isn’t true for races. Animals of the same species do share traits, while there are differences between animals of different species.

In my opinion, pretending that every living being is the same would be way more problematic than what you call speciesism.

I don’t see anything wrong with an occasional blunt, but regularly smoking weed will fuck you up in the long term, do not recommend. How about a hobby?

Sounds like you’ve already answered your question yourself.

I don’t know about the US, but in Germany the right lane is for getting on and off the high way, so going very fast there might be dangerous. It also just makes things less chaotic, traffic becomes more predictable and driving less exhausting.

Another ressource that might be useful: https://distrochooser.de/

Yeah, but this only shows communities followed by at least one user of your instance.

I’m all for rehabilitation. But according to the University of Adelaide, almost half of prisoners released in 2018-19 returned to prison within two years. Not much rehabilitation going on there. Also, if we’re talking about rehabilitation, fixed lengths for prison sentences make no sense. A prisoner should then be released into society when they have been rehabilitated, not after a fixed amount of years.

“Murder in Victoria carries a potential maximum sentence of 15 years in prison.” Now that’s wild.

the latter

The last bath I took was probably at least ten years ago. (Not counting swimming in a lake or pool or anything like that)

The AfD is currently getting 35% in surveys in saxony, meaning the majority of people does not support the AfD.

I’d even argue that right wing parties are way bigger in Poland (PiS and Konfederacja) than they are in Saxony or Dresden. So if Dresden is too right-leaning for you, the same should probably be true for Poland.

Nope, talking about the joke in the post.

I’d say the joke is probably that you are logically deducting something thats already obvious to everyone, portraying logicians as people that are far removed from reality

Bring the creature outside and release it, let it tell tales about the mighty human warriors and the incredible mercy they showed for such an inferior being.

Germany, 25, yup