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Billie Eilish Is Obviously Right About Animals

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Eating someone is inconsistent with loving them properly

Epistemic status: unusually unhinged. Suppose you say that you love your children. However, you lock them in a dark, cramped, small, filthy, feces-ridden cage where they can’t turn around, slice off their nose with a knife, break their bones multiple times, kill, and eat them. It seems reasonable, in such a case, to say that you don’t really love your children—or at the very least, that you are not living up to what that love demands. Recently, Billie Eilish, a Singer, declared that you cannot love animals and eat them. As the kids say, this was very based. But the internet has been set…

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