Hence—remember: millions of lives at stake. At non-linear, long-term stake, but still. Not to mention if we shift the norms towards animal emancipation, against animal exploitation, where we have sixty billion land animals and over a trillion aquatic animals killed each year. When the stakes are this high, you don’t get to pretend you’re the good-guy by saying you’d just rather not relate to these issues. You are not the good-guy, you cannot remain innocent. And yet, we must remain playful, lest we are guaranteed to experience the failures that follow from fanaticism and disastrous
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