š¹Early to RISA š§Anon wants to be a vampire
VubDappleJokes on you Anon! If everyone is a vampire then whoās blood do you suck?
He would quickly become pro-immigration
IheartcheeseOr a bunch of redneck vampires invade Mexico
Quick! Book a pitch meeting with the heads of all the major studios!
Iām thinking Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter meets Here Comes Honey Boo Boo meets Duck Dynasty!
Havenāt you watched From Dusk 'til Dawn? Vampires come FROM Mexico
You farm the remaining humans like livestock? We mastered factory farming 100 years ago, no reason things need to change just because the animals can talk back.
bizarrolandOkay but among those people who choose to remain human, how many of us would be okay with donating blood every two weeks in exchange for food and rent?
Think about it. If the vampires have all the power, why would they kill their food source when the longer they let their food source live the more food they get out of it?
Let us tra-la-la and have happy-go-lucky existences, which will probably make our blood taste better to them, and they can spend their eternities competing for resources or whatever makes a vampire happy after the first 500 years.
BjƶrnI see a novel forming.
Iām sure there are multiple already in existence
Thereās even a movie
KuadhualThereās one already, where the vampire is a head of state and religius leader. (Luminous Valentine)
Iāve been saying this since I was a kid. Every time I see a blood donation place. Thatās a vampire organization and you canāt convince me otherwise :D
iām always tempted to sing:
in the gloom of mighty cities, 'mid the roar of whirling wheels, we are toiling on like chattle slaves of old and our masters hope to keep us ever, thus, beneath their heels and to coin our very lifeblood into gold.Iām still salty that PETA stole their web domain from People Eating Tasty Animals.
This was part of the plots in the movies Blade & Blade 2.
The problem becomes apparent in this film: m.imdb.com/title/tt0433362/
starman2112Fun fact, human blood can be vegan, as long as the human is consenting
the definition of veganism has nothing to do with consent, only exploitation.
embed_meDoesnāt consent imply the absence of exploitative forces?
exploitation and consent are unrelated. I exploit water resources every day, and consent is an absurd topic to raise in this context. the definition of veganism requires the abstention from exploitation of animals for food. there is no exemption made for consenting animals
Exploit does mean āuse/utilizeā but I assumed the common subtext of āuse unfairly or in a manner not conducive to overall welfareā
the ambiguity does not seem to be helpful in defining veganism, and the definition should probably be updated
The way that people use the word āexploitā when talking about living things is different from the way we use it when talking about nonliving things. It implies a lack of consent from the one being exploited.
consenting exploitation is still exploitation.
And if Iām consenting, then it isnāt exploitation when a hot vampire gives me the biggest fucking hickey
consenting exploitation is still exploitation
en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/exploit
Scroll down to verbs. When youāre talking about someone else, thereās an implication of unfairness. This is why vegans donāt eat animals or use animal products. If the animals could consent, there would be nothing wrong with it.
The definition from the vegan society doesnāt mention unfairness at all. it prohibits exploitation carte blanche
And exploitation, when talking about living things, implies unfairness and nonconsent
And exploitation, when talking about living things, implies unfairness and nonconsent
You realize the word becomes entirely useless if we use your definition, yeah? Virtually every interaction between living things becomes exploitation under your silly definition. Itās not very useful. Iāll stick with the more widely used definition, wherein it would be exploitation for Nosferatu to suck my blood, but not Mavis Dracula or her dad
Virtually every interaction between living things becomes exploitation under your silly definition.
yea. it is. but the vegan societyās definition doesnāt prohibit exploiting living things: it prohibits exploiting animals.
the word becomes entirely useless if we use your definition, yeah?
i disagree. i think it draws sharp contrasts that help us understand both the standard and whether we are meeting it.
Nothing is vegan then.
wrong.
ZozanoI use Arch plant based alternatives BTW.
We mastered factory farming 100 years ago
Speak for yourself! I havenāt even begun practicing yet!
Minus: canāt eat garlic.
The_Helmet_Stays_OnWell fuck
I mean, you probably can, once.
also: canāt spill rice.
You can, itās just awful time consuming
Probably a pretty relaxing way to spend an afternoon if you do it on purpose š¤·
āWhat did you do over the weekend, Bob?ā
āOh, not much. Sired a few goths, threw some meditation rice. You know, the usualā
Man if I canāt have Caesar salad you might as well just drive a stake into my heart now.
Substitute with the much superior shalot. Reign supreme into eternity.
Anon might be Dio
I think Anon needs to retake middle school biology. You see thereās this thing called the predator/prey relationship and if the predators outnumber the prey, things are gonna get real dire REAL fast. Like this:
Yeah this is always the best thing when reading things like that; at the end of eternity weāll be left with an immense amount of shrivelled, dusty and extremely hangry immortals.
I was in a band called Extremely Hangry Immortals.
We mostly played industrial horrorcore and metal covers of food commercial jingles.
What a cool name! And that sounds like an erudite repertoire
I wonder who sleep is better for
Prey or predator?
Alias & Doseone - "The Deadener"
People have more or less completely forgotten that vampires are meant to represent the monstrosity of an unchecked aristocracy/wealthy upper class. They sold their souls for power and now live exclusively by feeding off those beneath them. You donāt just ābecomeā a vampire like you donāt just ābecomeā rich. You can certainly become enthralled to a vampire though
That was never the case. Traditional folk tales about vampires were a way to understand corpse decomposition. The narrative changed in 1819.
which anthropologist are you relying on for this analysis?
āThat was never the case.ā
āThat then became the case.ā
I never actually realised this. Now Iām going to be thinking about every depiction of vampires Iāve been exposed to, for the rest of the day.
Another con is that vampires are even more immortal than they appear. Even if the vampireās body is completely destroyed, their soul will wander through the universe, unable to affect anything, but still conscious. They canāt even communicate with other vampires in that state. Theyāll get to see universe die starting 10 to the power of 16 years from now (end of star formation) until itās finally dead at 10 to the power of 10 to the power of 120, when universe reaches its final energy state. But at least a new universe will start at 10 to the power of 10 to the power of 10 to the power of 56. (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future)
MeDuViNoXWhere does that lore come from? I thought they literally gave up their soul to the devil, or whatever evil thing rules hell, to have physical immortality?
they donāt have a soul. only living humans have a soul.
Expanding universe theory says itās just guna expand infinitum and fade out to nothingness. forever
shani66Not a scientist, but that kinda relies on the big bang having infinite energy, which is probably impossible. Eventually gravity will pull everything back together.
The distances between stellar objects are far too apart for gravity to be a remote factor at all. Let alone dark matter is theorised to be the force accelerating the speed at which matter IS distancing itself.
The universe will fade out of existence as suns burn out and their heat is lost to space with even the blackholes burning out (hawking radiation) as they too disappear and space turns into the black nothingness. Objects become so far apart that not even if they emitted light it would you be able to see a thing.
