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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted, clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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Vegans dont eat meat but they eat plants that were once livijg organism. Man you can’t win in this wold r (lemmy.one)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I never disregarded anything as a living being!!

I never said plants were lifeless!!!

That's what I've been emphasising so far over and over.

There's a distinction between being alive and being sentient.

All sentient beings are alive, but all alive beings aren't sentient.

Plants show all the evidence of being alive, but so far we have no evidence of them being sentient.

Disabled humans are humans all the same. So that's not a fair comparison. (At least in my mind it's very clear).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

It's all just about what you consider "conscious" to be. To be alive, to me, is to be conscious.

One might raise the couple issues with that, and to an extent, they have a point. Such as completely comatose people.

We've recently discovered comatose people are conscious, and are working on ways for them to communicate.

What about people who are kept "alive" only by machines, with no brain activity? I'd consider that person dead. It's only that his organs are being kept stable, in the event he can be recovered, or until the organs get donated.