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dotancohenyesterday at 6:16 PM9 repliesview on HN

I evolved to eat fish and meat killed. So did all other carnivores. I'm happy to continue eating and shitting and sleeping and having sex, I don't want supplements to replace food and AI to replace intellect and IVF to replace sex. I want to be alive.


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Faelonyesterday at 7:24 PM

Abstaining from killing animals is about the sober realization that we can have perfectly healthy and happy lives without killing animals, who have feelings and a sense of perspective and experience, just like us. Living with my values and actions as one give me a strong sense of life, and I love cooking every day. Plants taste great when cooked well!

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Insanityyesterday at 6:31 PM

Our species started out predominantly eating fruits, vegetables, nuts,.. As hunter gatherers, meat eating came later and initially was still not a dominant source of nutrition.

So yes, you eventually evolved for this, but it wasn’t the dominant food source for a loooooong time.

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niek_pasyesterday at 6:21 PM

You also evolved to nearly choke to death when you accidentally eat and breathe at the same time. Doesn’t mean it’s desirable.

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cluckindanyesterday at 6:23 PM

Reject modernity, embrace nomadic life in the forests.

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CalRobertyesterday at 6:30 PM

Ok, but evolution didn’t get us somewhere over 8 billion people can share this planet.

Braxton1980yesterday at 8:04 PM

>, I don't want supplements to replace food and AI to replace intellect and IVF to replace sex. I want to be alive

No one is pushing for these changes you suggest and to take a stance suggests a social disorder or mental illness.

boston_cloneyesterday at 6:34 PM

You are not a carnivore, neither is any other human.

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staticassertionyesterday at 6:30 PM

This feels like a series of completely disconnected statements. The underlying theme seems to be that "living" is something that can only be realized by isolating behaviors to those that developed under specific niche conditions that applied pressure to our ancestors, and that this is good, and that deviating is bad. The word "living" and "alive" seems to be a proxy word for something like "happy" or "fulfilled"?

So many hoops to jump through to understand what the hell you're talking about, just to land on what could charitably be called the dumbest thing I'll read today if I'm lucky.

dymkyesterday at 6:29 PM

You are not living in the body of a carnivore

Eat some berries and nuts

"Paleo" diet doesn't even include that much meat in it