MaxMalRichtig

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man

Wow, never had that book on my radar. Plot sounds pretty crazy!

In my experience, it doesn’t matter where you are on the internet, you will always be faced with idiots who try to bring you down.

Don’t let them win. Be yourself and politely ignore (and block) the hell out of these people. It is YOUR time and you should be able to live it the way YOU want it.

Best of luck and hope to see you around.

It is basically a meme space for people on the spectrum. It has some “circlejerk” vibes to it, if you are familiar with this genre of subs.

The subreddit description reads:

The place where we evilly collect special interests and rub textures without mercy.

Have a nice day too! 👋

Read my second sentence again.

The thing I am SURE about is, that using words and concepts from one area and postulating that they are applying in the same sense in another area, just because we found some loose similarity or similar trait, is logically not sound. See False-Equivalence

Our understanding of “pain” only makes sense when applying it to beings with a nervous system, because this word describes just THAT.

It’s like talking about hair and hairstyles and then applying the derived insights to birds, because their feathers “remind” us of hair.

It just doesn’t apply. Other contexts require dedicated concepts that are not “loaded” by using termina from irrelevant concepts.

Emotive language does not help your argument. It weakens any validity it might have otherwise.

Plants don’t “feel pain”. The entire concept of “pain” is alien to everything without a central nervous system.

Plants DO however react to stressful external stimuli. They do that in a way, that we will never be able to relate to.

Some publications use words as “pain” and “suffering” in that context in order to go give non-academic folks something to relate. But on a scientific level, these terms are irrelevant at best.

I’m really proud of you! 🤗

I know how hard this can be. So take the win and keep at it. You got this.

Coworker in random conversation: “Here, have something vegan instead.”
* Pushes @[email protected] towards conversation partner. *

I give you this: https://loadingartist.com/comic/let-me-sin/

😘