Reason #142 for why I am not on FacePalmBook.
What?
Like @Fantasy Lover said, "WTF"???
Indeed, plus No
Hope you are right, but either way...No
Things that frustrate us all
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Reason #142 for why I am not on FacePalmBook.
What?
Like @Fantasy Lover said, "WTF"???
Indeed, plus No
Hope you are right, but either way...No
Not quite the same but an old work colleague used to have her own Christmas Turkey bred. From a small chick she used to go see it, feed it, give them names. Then eat it for Christmas dinner.
I just can't imagine doing that, I'm more one to not want to think about the meat I'm eating and what living creature it used to be.
I just can't imagine doing that, I'm more one to not want to think about the meat I'm eating and what living creature it used to be.
Yeah, I could never do that, and I felt that way even when I still ate meat. I just would make way to strong of an emotional connection with an animal like that, and there is no way I could handle it being killed.
On similar note, I couldn't imagine working in a slaughter house, I don't understand how people can have so little empathy that they could kill animals as their job.
On similar note, I couldn't imagine working in a slaughter house, I don't understand how people can have so little empathy that they could kill animals as their job.
To have empathy requires putting them on a similar moral plane to yourself.
Not everyone does that with animals.
Not everyone does that with animals.
Sadly true. Our culture still defaults to Rene Descartes' attitude that animals are merely sophisticated automata without minds. Even when I read him back in college, I found that deeply stupid.
A Dog or Cat would debunk mr rene attitude.
“I meow, therefore I am.”
It's a ruff subject...
Nice Reference!
I remember his examination of Consciousness in my College Studies, 1.0
I remember the loss of consciousness in mine.
As for Descartes: Once he walked into a bar. The barman asked him if he wanted a beer. He said "I think not." And then he disappeared.
I've got a real frustration.
Customer service numbers... or rather, the damned computer voice. My wife and I were calling the same place with each of our phones trying to find a human to talk to.
We spent almost an hour doing this as the system kept yanking us around and around after we already asked for a human many times. (Pressing 0 never works anymore.)
Customer service numbers... or rather, the damned computer voice. My wife and I were calling the same place with each of our phones trying to find a human to talk to.
We spent almost an hour doing this as the system kept yanking us around and around after we already asked for a human many times. (Pressing 0 never works anymore.)
If it's not a super important call, I tend to just hang up when I get a computer voice.
Yeah, I just have trouble wrapping my mind around that.
Fortunately, with many entities, mobile apps now take the place of speaking to them on the phone.
For example, I had a great vacation in Boston last month, but I was well aware of the hurricane approaching the east coast. I suspected that one of my flights home might be cancelled, and lo and behold, one was. (I found this out at 4:30 AM when I was checking out of my hotel.
) But with a couple clicks on the United mobile app, I had a whole new itinerary, complete with boarding passes. Didn't have to talk to anyone. Easy peasy!And mobile banking is just as easy. A lot of financial mobile apps even let you dispute a charge, or report a card lost or stolen, right from the app!