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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • I played ice hockey with a young bloke who had FAS and he was an absolute mess. Zero impulse control, low intelligence and addicted to anything he could get his hands on.

    Some of his behaviour would have earned another person a beating but everyone knew and tried… correcting his behaviour a bit more gently.

    His dad was clearly making an effort but it was ruining both their lives and he had divorced.

    Young bloke ended up offing himself.

    On an equally depressing note, once you know what to look for you see FAS fairly regularly in porn.





  • Are these best shearers not still commoditizing the products of the body of another thinking being?

    What does that have to do with the question of whether or not the process of shearing is violent?

    How do we know your claims of non-violent sheering are true?

    How do you know PETAs claims are true? (“As reported by PETA, one eyewitness to the process said”)

    I’ve been an eyewitness to the process, and I’m not idealogically biased the way PETA extremists are known to be.

    Where is the sheep in this shed, now?

    What? This sentence just doesn’t make sense. The sheep don’t live in the shed.

    The females of the breeds I have observed don’t have horns, and their tails are docked to prevent excrutiatingly painful death by flystrike.

    The alternative to wool production in Australia is cotton, which is even more environmentally destructive than sheep are, mostly due to the sheer amount of water required for cotton production. People need clothes so these industries aren’t going away.

    Shearers have an interest in not causing unecessary harm to sheep, because it is counter productive. That’s my experience.

    The rest of your argument is moralising which I am uninterested in.