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Of course not, and even many objects should, at least in my opinion, be treated with some respect. I mostly agree with what you’ve written here.

To act as though we are above them

In my opinion, it is precisely because we are above them that we (or at least many of us) abhor unnecessary suffering and waste. The wolf however does not care when it slaughters a whole herd of sheep to eat just their livers and leave the rest to rot, neither does it hesitate to kill the zookeeper that has fed it for a decade when they slip up for just a moment.

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Like deciding what animals live and die?

Yup, in most cases it is the owners of said animals that decide what happens to them, like with other property. The government trying to force (or prevent) putting an animal down would also be overreach.

The exceptions when it comes to property rights are generally when human beings are somehow endangered, which is where most rights and freedoms, sensibly, are limited.

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I expect you’d have a rather different stance if it was advertising for something you enjoy in life that was being singled out and banned.

It’d be very different if it was a blanket ban on all advertisement in these contexts, but it isn’t. It’s the government trying to decide what people eat.

I wouldn’t be opposed to blanket bans on advertisingin certain contexts. This however is the state going nanny on the populace.

Yikes, how is that supposed to be uplifting? Sounds a whole lot like authoritarian overreach. Let people decide for themselves what they do and don’t want to eat.

Not really. The Fediverse has a slant towards american left/far left and moderation tends to reflect this in larger communities. Particularly the americentrism and hostility to different perspectives can make it difficult to have meaningful discussions on certain topics.

(For context, I’d be impressed if I have more than ~30 countrymen active in the fediverse)

Here’s a few reasons:

• Not funny

• Not nuanced

• Bad art

• Comes off as smug/condescending (author)

• Makes fun of/disparages broad groups of people

• Assigns positions that people don’t agree with to labels they identify with.

Etc. Etc.

Honestly I think the easiest thing would be to not allow images or embedding at all in PMs and perhaps display a warning message when clicking links “you are leaving [instance name]…”

Analyzing potentially lots of text and images in an effort to “guarantee” safety of users is likely a sisyphusian endeavour that is bound to fail - and furthermore also has privacy issues (namely that “private” messages aren’t private at all)

Honestly, I would recommend not books on atheism per se, but rather ones exploring non-theistic philosophy. Schools of thought amongst atheists and agnostics are just as diverse, if not more so than amongst theists. My world view is made up of many things, humanitarianism, empiricism and so forth. Ideas that build a foundation.

There is also the more emotional side, finding beauty and purpose in life. Personally I find myself coming back to the works of Carl Sagan, particularly “The pale blue dot”. Capturing, at least for me, a lot of essence.

Here is a short excerpt that he read. Just, wow.

That is simply incorrect. I suggest that you educate yourself further on the topic and refrain from making similarly uninformed statements on related topics in the future.

Here is the wikipedia page of all current members of knesset:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_members_of_the_twenty-fifth_Knesset

Going from the top of the list of current knesset members, we have Likud party members (the current ruling party).

No. 4 on the list is Amir Ohana, current speaker of the Knesset. He is the child of two moroccan jews, and also happens to be gay.

No. 7 Shlomo Karhi, minister of Communications, Tunisian heritage.

No. 8 David Bitan - born in Morocco.

Q.E.D, feel free to find more examples on your own, there are plenty.

Yep - a lot of westerners fail to understand that a majority of Israelis have middle-eastern or north-African ancestry, even if excluding the large arab Israeli demographic. Depicting the people of Israel as a monolith is a very crude oversimplification

Trying to apply american racism to israeli demographics may be one of the quickest ways to show your ignorance on the topic.

Someone burning the bible doesn’t make the news in Sweden, so you’d never know

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I know of at least one instance where they asked for permission to burn torah scrolls outside the Israeli embassy. They got permission, Israel protested and Swedish dept of foreign affairs basically said “We don’t condone the action, but this falls under freedom of expression laws.”

On the day though, instead of doing the burning they instead protested against burning qurans.

The worst part is that you can get targeted by advertisements recorded by the other partys phone. Once upon a time, before I started blocking spotify ads, the ads I got were always very generic (fast food, spotify premium, espresso house etc.), but one time after visiting my cousin and mentioning that I had a headache, I was bombarded with only ads for pain killers for the full three hour drive home the day after.

Creepy AF.

This kind of crap is dangerous on any road or path, regardless of whether it’s for vehicles (including bikes) or people.

It’s the same kind of people doing this as tying up strings between trees in forest paths (can literally kill someone) as tossing stones from highway overpasses. Absolutely deplorable.

Intentionally doing these kinds of things should automatically land someone in jail.

Hold on, let me just hang a curtain in front of the secondary screen.

There, so much better :)