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That's sad, what an illogical approach to an ethical dilemma.
"Oh well, people died before laws were introduced, may as well go on a killing spree" - right? Nothing else matters?
this is a strawman. my argument is more like "you may object to killing animals for food, but your method is not an effective way to stop it"
Which is an incredibly stupid point, because it presupposes that reducing needless deaths only has value if absolutely every single death is prevented. This, of course, is completely illogical - even one death that was prevented has value.
But we don't care about silly things like "logic" here, right?
Not to mention that your original point was that you bear no responsibility for the deaths of animals you consume, but who cares as long as you can keep giving stupid arguments ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
right. and this speaks directly to that.