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The co-founder of failed cryptocurrency exchange FTX pleaded not guilty to a seven count indictment charging him with wire fraud, securities fraud and money laundering.

An attorney for FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried said in federal court Tuesday his client has to subsist on bread, water and peanut butter because the jail he's in isn't accommodating his vegan diet.

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[–] BonfireOvDreams@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

Nobody said the guy is entirely ethical ¯\(ツ)

I don't think being forced to consume death/murder is the answer to him not being ethical with people's funds.

[–] dezmd@lemmy.world -4 points 1 year ago (7 children)

So you aren't killing the plants and vegetables you eat as a vegan?

Or you perceive no ethical quandaries about murdering plants?

Or plants don't count because they don't have the same type of nervous system that allows us to communicate in an ethically direct fashion?

Are trees ethically more important than plants you can ethically eat, thus perceived as more ethically protected under such auspices?

And what's your ethical stance on property development groups clear cutting small pine tree forested areas near existing residential/industrial/commercial zoned areas to create more affordable single family and multi-family homes for low income families?

[–] dx1@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

So you aren’t killing the plants and vegetables you eat as a vegan?

Friendly tip to everyone on the internet. If you find yourself writing this, please shut the fuck up.

[–] monarchsonvacay@adding.space 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, can't be out here forcing cultists to think about what they're actually saying

[–] dx1@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Vegans are all well aware the philosophy is about reducing suffering for sentient beings. Nobody thinks "being alive" is an ethical metric. Rather, the bad faith argument about "plants feel pain" (which is absolute horse shit) is constantly spouted like it's some kind of refutation of veganism. Not to mention this idiotic "cultist" slur that's leveraged to make it seem like veganism isn't the single approach that's actually grounded in reality.

[–] monarchsonvacay@adding.space -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

And if that means brigading and defending pieces of shit who rob other human beings of their hard-earned money and has stolen billions of dollars, giving bad faith arguments, deconstructing justice as a fundamental concept and in general being a bunch of fucking cultists, who cares. You'll happily accuse people who want to see people like him be punished, even in a court of law, of being subhuman savages while happily acting as if the ends justify the means to enforce your evil ideological bullshit. And who cares who is harmed by your words and actions? People don't matter, animals do.

[–] dx1@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, either that or it's unnecessary to kill animals for food and clothes and shit and we just don't do it. IDK what the hell you're on about.

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