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organicAnt  ·  3496 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: David Foster Wallace - Consider The Lobster

    But lobsters apparently taste good, I've never had one, so people do it anyway. This is human nature. The end.

Here's a short list of what was once (and some still are) considered "human nature" or the "natural order":

Race discrimination, Religion discrimination, Gender discrimination, Sex discrimination, Age discrimination, Weight discrimination, and so on...

Animal discrimination is an extension of the mentality that allowed (allows) the above to go on unquestioned because it's "human nature".