If you truly want everyone to have empathy for everyone no matter what then you can’t make exceptions. If you can make exceptions you allow for others to do so too while maintaining the guise of being empathetic. Even if you, your loved ones or anyone else you deem worthy of empathy are the exception in their eyes.
You could do both, being curled up on the sofa with a sandwich and make the world a little better, by reducing your meat consumption. There are very nice vegetarian/vegan sandwich options.
I’m not sure about which metadata is collected by Element, but it might be possible to correlate data, for example through fingerprinting. So it might be possible to know who the parties communicating with each other are and when and with whom they have communicated with, even though they did not provide phone/email.
With Signal, as far as I know and they claim, that is not possible. The only data Signal has is your phone number, when you’ve signed up and when you last logged in.
So with my limited knowledge I’d say Signal is much more private for personal communication. Especially if you’re not tech savvy and take additional measures.
And Lemmy is a social message board. There is no expectation of privacy here.
Props for putting your question in a comment and not the post body!
The only thing that I can think of right now would be a handheld 3D-Scanner. But I’m not even sure what kind of software would be needed to capture/use the information.
the human population is very much reliant on animal sources to sustain itself
Do you have a source for that? What % of the global meat consumption is actually necessary and what is just for pleasure? And don’t get me started on food waste…
what is required to continue existing as a species
Do you mean scale up as a species? We’ve existed for how many thousands of years in a sustainable way?
the distinctive categories of pets and livestock are an unfortunate requirement of our current situation
A requirement for what? You said we need animals to sustain ourselves. What do we need the distinction of pets for?
People who treat pets animals as property are not good people.
FTFY
I’m not a militant vegan, I do make occasional exemptions for ethically sourced animal products. But the distinction between pets and other animals is just hypocritical.
You know what would help? Steam releasing a console. Valve, please just do what you did with the Steam Deck and put it in a box, offer 2-3 variations of specs and refresh them every 3-5 years.
It’s not about tolerance though. You can both have empathy for someone and not tolerate their behavior.
If we don’t have empathy for the people we can’t tolerate we will only ever fight symptoms and not root causes.
This is especially made clear with the example you gave. Because guess what, we have nazis on the rise again.