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  • Early previews of Metroid Prime 4 prominently feature a companion that you rescue in the first area, who tags along for a large portion of the playtime. He makes dumb quips: “It’s about to get real nerdy in here”, screams when enemies appear: “Is everything on this planet trying to kill us?”, states very obvious things: “missiles work better on enemies with hard shells” and nags you about what to do at any given moment: “You want something to shoot? Try that piston”.

    He’s also an escort that you need to protect or you get a game over.






  • I disagree with your line of logic then. Something doesn’t need to be a moral duty to be moral. It’s not a moral duty for a poor person to donate to charity, but being charitable is a moral act.

    Similarly, you can probably point to edge cases where the following line of logic cannot be applied broadly due to people’s circumstances.

    For me personally,

    1. Livestock animals are sentient, they display a preference to live and be free from suffering and confinement.

    2. I do not need to purchase animal products to be healthy and happy.

    3. In the absence of necessity, intentionally confining, harming and killing animals is not morally justifiable.









  • IMO those people need to chill. I used to catch shit from my in laws for never feeding my kids meat, but they’re both healthy, strong and they surpass all of their growth and development milestones. Their pediatrician is more than happy with us excluding meat from their diet.

    Can you fuck a kid up on a vegetarian or vegan diet? Of course if you don’t know what you’re doing and you feed them nothing but raw fruit or something. I’d argue it’s even easier to fuck them up on a standard American diet. Don’t take your kids to McDonald’s every other day and tell me I’m a shit parent for not feeding meat to mine. (Obviously this last point isn’t directed specifically at you, but at the attitude in general).






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    2 months ago

    This is a 100% fair criticism of my comment tbh. I do have a pretty surface level understanding of Batman, and I let my real life frustration with billionaires inform the points in my comment. I’ll take it easier on Bruce Wayne but fuck all other billionaires.