Italy Bans Synthetic Meat, Fish, and Dairy to ‘Protect Our Culture and Our Tradition’
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It's anything in videogames really. There's a game called Cookie Clicker. Quite addicting. It's a game where you manage a cookie factory. Well, you pretend to manage a cookie factory, without actually going through the hassle of setting up a business to own a cookie factory.
Or how about board games? You pretend to own a bunch of land, build houses and hotels, and bankrupt people in the game of monopoly. Yet 99.99% of people who have played monopoly never end up doing any of that. Or the game of Life, where you can pretend to go to college and get a degree, and start an entire life sequence, without getting bogged down with 6 figures of college debt.
Truth is, people pretend to do things all the time, without actually having any desires to do the real thing.
Why not pretend to eat a burger, without a dead cow that was horribly treated in life being killed just to sit on your plate?
Pretending, isn't real life. You can pretend all kinds of scenarios, without going through the real life means of making it happen.
So is your proposed solution to remove all forms of pretending? Get rid of movies, games, plays, etc, and focus on reality only?
I see nothing wrong with enjoying myself a good Beyond Burger. I'm not thinking to myself while eating it that I'm glad i pretended to kill a cow to eat it. I'm simply enjoying the taste. And with the knowledge that a cow wasn't killed to make that happen.
You: "...this is what pisses me off about veganism..."
Also you: "I absolutely don't have any problems with veganism..."
It sounded like you had a problem with veganism in your initial post, which sparked this chat in the first place.
Anyway, i wish you a good day. Take care of yourself.
"good" in an oxymoron there.
I eat ears of corn and orange carrots often enough.