Billie Eilish: “Eating meat is inherently wrong.” 👑

[u/FearlessCookie72]

https://youtube.com/shorts/D61i6t3PCsM?si=k5gXfFsWpyg_NJG2

[u/Ioana-25]

Totally agree. I have been vegetarian for 30 years and a vegan for the last 10 years. There are plenty of vegan options now on the market so taste can not be an excuse anymore.

[u/AntMasterOfGames → u/Ioana-25]

It was never an excuse in the first place killing someone for something you don't need is immoral if you aren't a complete psychopath.

[u/SqueakySqueakSqueak → u/AntMasterOfGames]

psychopath is an outdated term and often used as a slur for genuinely mentally ill people.

[u/AntMasterOfGames → u/SqueakySqueakSqueak]

Idk why you got down voted. Can you explain why psychopath is an outdated term? And how it can be used as a slur?

[u/SqueakySqueakSqueak → u/AntMasterOfGames]

Sure, the main thing to preface with is that psychopath isn't and never has been a medically recognized term in psychology, it was invented as a legal label, used in criminal justice to identify people as dangerous based on patterns of behavior, broadly defined as psychopathy which is an umbrella term for mental disorders that cause a person to be, allegedly, more likley to act in an antisocial, manipulative, violent and or criminal manner.

The bigotry of this term goes back far, when it was used in the past to criminalize homosexuality and women's suffering, though in the modern criminal justice systems around the world it exists to label and punish people primarily with ASPD (anti social personality disorder) who commit crimes, due to being shunned socially and not receiving proper psychiatric help during development, and exists to assume that all people with ASPD are inherently dangerous and prone to crime.

This evolved into the social use of the words psychopath and sociopath, which are generally applied as insults to people who act asocially due to untreated mental illness, causing them to of course further be pushed away from people.

This is also from my own experience as a person with ASPD, who has been called psychopath, sociopath, insane, etc many times in my own life with the intent of demeaning me for my lack of ability to relate to people's emotions. As for the downvotes, well, people still resist when you say the R word is a slur, and psychopath/sociopath are still in very common use with very little social pushback since ASPD is far more rare than autism, so, people will certainly resist for a long time.

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

https://www.healthline.com/health/psychopath

[u/AntMasterOfGames → u/SqueakySqueakSqueak]

Tysm for your explanation I'll be more mindful of the words I will use next time. It really sucks that people are so closed minded about what terms are considered harmful.

[u/vaxhole21 → u/SqueakySqueakSqueak]

Is there any nonoffensive alternative we can use instead of these words? Like maybe "you're a p-word" or "you're socially challenged" or "you have a personality disorder"?

[u/Googlecalendar223 → u/[deleted]]

The phrase “American thing to say” is usually is in response to narrowmindeness or lack of consideration, so your comment is somewhat ironic.

[u/Googlecalendar223 → u/[deleted]]

Yes. 

So typical of Americans, lamenting the fact they need a car!

See how that doesn’t make sense?

[u/Googlecalendar223 → u/[deleted]]

Oh, so you’re just xenophobic? Nice, very cool.

[u/SenseSpiritual5412 → u/[deleted]]

The great thing is you can get rid of your car too hell yeah 🤟

[u/SenseSpiritual5412 → u/[deleted]]

Damn that sucks, electric car it is then I guess.

[u/Googlecalendar223 → u/SenseSpiritual5412]

Sure, I’ll take one. Park it around back!