Re: Joy of this, Joy of that

On 12/4/24 4:00 PM, D wrote:

  On Wed, 4 Dec 2024, rbowman wrote:
 

On Wed, 4 Dec 2024 14:07:42 +0100, D wrote:
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So do I, but I still enjoy eating them. People are strange! Sometimes I
do not understand them at all.

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I was able to compartmentalize as a kid. There was the friendly squirrel
we fed and then there was his cousins out in the woods that fed us.
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Before my time but my parents raised a pig. Pig farming is one thing but
raising one pig is something else since pigs are quite intelligent. The
pig got butchered in the fall and eaten but the experiment wasn't
repeated. They stuck to chickens.

 Yes, I imagine the more intelligent they are, and the fewer they are, the stronger connection you build, and the less tasty the food.
 Reminds me of the old Simpsons episode when Homer raises a small lobster only to consume it while crying.

   Yep - we can mentally split such things. Pet calf -vs-
   Big Mac ... entirely different even while not being
   so different  :-)
   Kinda how we treat US and THEM too ... nothing is too
   bad for The Enemy, for THEM ...
   Maybe that's why our subspecies wound up the ONLY one,
   seriously weird and hostile and LOVES cognitive dissonance :-)
   Ah, the poor Neanderthals. Never stood a chance.
   "Six impossible things before breakfast ..."