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it's the opposite arguement, it's like christians who believe shit without questioning it.
Christians didn't pick up the argument that atheists are immoral from the bible. They believe it's so because atheists have no rulebook like they do. It's a cultural phenomenon rather than a religious one. (Okay, that part is debatable I guess.)

Regardless, the argument goes like this: if you're an atheist, you don't subscribe to the bible, which means you don't follow the Ten Commandments (or indeed anything else that's written in there). Thus, if you're an atheist, you're immoral and would not feel remorse if you killed someone.

Then your argument in contrast: if you're not a vegetarian, you have no qualms about eating meat. Thus, you have no objection to eating dog or cat or anything else that might seem inappropriate.

Both of these are the same logical fallacy.

why would you blindly accept it, just cause it the norm?
Usually, yes. That's how culture works.
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The problem with the eating dogs argument is this:  most of us agree that there's nothing ethically wrong with eating dogs.  "But then why won't you???" is the follow up, but the answer is very simple--we don't want to!  A lot of foods are ethical to eat, that doesn't make people desire it.  A lot of people think that sushi is gross, but it's not out of any moral issue, it's just that it doesn't appeal to them for one reason or another and they don't want to put it in their stomachs.  I have no ethical reason for not eating dogs, I just don't want to eat a dog!  Fuck, it probably has more to do with the fact that I'm hesitant to try new foods than the fact that I like dogs.  If you like chickens and you don't want to eat them, then you just don't!  It has nothing to do with whether or not it's ethically okay for someone to eat chickens, you just don't want to.
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I'd much rather work 2.5 days a week to survive than work 5 days a week 8 hours a day (which I work in the summer).

2.5 days/week = 60 hours/week.
8hours/day for 5 days = 40 hours/week. which is < 2 days.

Of course there are no uncited articles that teach math so Dok wouldn't quite know these things...
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hey doktor do you squatshit? I heard that primitivists do things like that because they feel that toilets are part of the reason why the world is in such a shitty state. one of my friends said they hung out with some primitivists and they had a poster in the bathroom telling them to stand on the toilet lid or something like that. They also did not have any toilet paper, so my friend just tore off a piece of the poster.
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i think he just talks it
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there was a scene in king of the hill where luann is giving birth and they're all in the waiting room. everyone looks stressed, hank is frowning at a highlights magazine and he looks up and you think he's going to do a sitcom esque sigh of worry but instead his brow furrows and he says "I tell you this goofus fella is a dumbass" with this expression of disbelief I can't convey well in a post.

and I'm not kidding I pictured doktormartini that exact second. this doktormartini fella is a dumbass.
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The problem with the eating dogs argument is this:  most of us agree that there's nothing ethically wrong with eating dogs.  "But then why won't you???" is the follow up, but the answer is very simple--we don't want to!  A lot of foods are ethical to eat, that doesn't make people desire it.  A lot of people think that sushi is gross, but it's not out of any moral issue, it's just that it doesn't appeal to them for one reason or another and they don't want to put it in their stomachs.  I have no ethical reason for not eating dogs, I just don't want to eat a dog!  Fuck, it probably has more to do with the fact that I'm hesitant to try new foods than the fact that I like dogs.  If you like chickens and you don't want to eat them, then you just don't!  It has nothing to do with whether or not it's ethically okay for someone to eat chickens, you just don't want to.
I think the thing is that you can't actually buy dog-burgers at Mcdonald's. If Mcdonald's knew that no one would complain about them selling burgers made out of homeless dogs, the menu would probably look different from what it does now. Also, what about cats? Would you guys eat a cat?
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apparently it was actually bonehead bonehead why did you put dicks in your avatar?
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How did the cat die? Cause depending on how it died i'd eat a cat. If you know how to get properly cut meat it pretty much all tastes the same one way or another. Properly cut deer for instance tastes like beef if you don't hit the scent glands, it's all texture.
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i would probably eat anything that is safe at least once except for really gross shit but i dont know if i'd want to really try it if that means anything. like i'm willing to bet dog doesn't taste very good, and neither does cat. if they did we'd probably have more cultures eating them and domesticating them as food over you know HUMAN HISTORY. this is probably why cannibalism also never took off. they are probably beyond gamey and rubbery as fuck. just my thoughts anyways.
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if they offered a dog kabob at the mall i'd try it. but if someone said PAY 30 DOLLARS WE'LL SHIP YOU LIKE A THING OF DOG MEAT I'd be like man this probably tastes like shit. that kind of try if it makes sense. i would not go out of my way for something that probably tastes bad.

snake for instance is hard to prepare because SNAKES and all so i could see paying for that more than dog. but no if you wouldn't eat a dog but you eat other meat its your hangup more than an ethical concern.
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