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To be confused as to why we’re not all sociopaths?

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User854 · 31/03/2024 22:15

This thought was triggered by the other thread where a child accidentally kills a hamster but seems to show no remorse; the child is widely being labelled a sociopath on that thread.

Are we not all then sociopathic when we gleefully tuck into our lamb chops that someone has killed for us? What’s the difference really?

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WinterDeWinter · 31/03/2024 22:29

cloudde · 31/03/2024 22:25

Cognitive dissonance

This!

I can't do the cognitive dissonance any more, can't unsee it so I don't eat meat or dairy.

The process was accelerated by getting a dog - what's the difference between a dog and a pig?

(Actually for me it's the painful despairing tortured lives of farmed animals that I can't unsee - I don't have as much of an ethical barrier to killing wild animals or fish for food.)

cloudde · 31/03/2024 22:25

Cognitive dissonance

Trigabom · 31/03/2024 22:22

Because it's different to kill an innocent creature and show no remorse. If a boy walked up to a lamb in a field and killed it, people would say the same

Eating stuff you bought in a shop is completely different psychologically

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