Guilty pleasures or conscious immoral decisions you take?

Started by Martinus, November 16, 2011, 04:25:44 PM

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Martinus

November 16, 2011, 04:25:44 PM Last Edit: November 16, 2011, 04:28:20 PM by Martinus
We all have them. Stuff we cannot otherwise justify but we engage in anyway, because you can't give it up.

I can find ethical justification or excuse for a lot of stuff - incest, open relationships (aka cheating), homosexuality, etc. But there is one thing for which I cannot: eating meat. Including foie gras. Yet I do it because I'm weak.

What's your vice? :P

Valmy

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November 16, 2011, 04:28:07 PM
Why is it immoral to help farmers?  :mad:
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Martinus

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November 16, 2011, 04:32:22 PM
Quote from: Valmy on November 16, 2011, 04:28:07 PM
Why is it immoral to help farmers?  :mad:

And stuff geese with food until their livers explode? :P

Barrister

#3
November 16, 2011, 04:35:27 PM
"guilty pleasure" is not the same thing as an immoral decision.

A guilty pleasure is something that you do despite it being bad for you (or having no particular merit or benefit).  Things like eating fatty foods, or watching trashy television are guilty pleasures.  They aren't actually immoral.
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#4
November 16, 2011, 04:42:10 PM
I invest in the stock market knowing full well that capitalism is oppression.

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Viking

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November 16, 2011, 04:46:42 PM
My guilty pleasures include

- some trashy 80s electro pop
- wine gums
- weekday boozing


torturing geese to death with corn feed is just horrible.. I acutally ate and found fois gras disgusting well before I found out what it was.
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November 16, 2011, 04:58:36 PM
Bombay mix :sadblush:
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Josephus

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November 16, 2011, 05:19:40 PM
Quote from: Viking on November 16, 2011, 04:46:42 PM
My guilty pleasures include

- some trashy 80s electro pop
- wine gums
- weekday boozing




I love wine gums. They've become my vice since I quit the nicotine.
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fhdz

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November 16, 2011, 05:39:47 PM
Quote from: Martinus on November 16, 2011, 04:25:44 PM
But there is one thing for which I cannot: eating meat.

You can't find a single justification for eating meat despite the fact that our bodies are made to digest it and our teeth are made to chew it?
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November 16, 2011, 05:56:10 PM
The human demand for animal products like meat and milk sustains life for millions of living creatures who, in the absence of such demand, would most likely be rendered extinct or near extinct.
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Josephus

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November 16, 2011, 06:00:11 PM
Amen, brother.
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Jacob

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November 16, 2011, 06:41:17 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on November 16, 2011, 04:42:10 PM
I invest in the stock market knowing full well that capitalism is oppression.

:sleep:

:lol:

Legbiter

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November 16, 2011, 07:02:19 PM
Quote from: Martinus on November 16, 2011, 04:25:44 PM
I can find ethical justification or excuse for a lot of stuff - incest, open relationships (aka cheating), homosexuality, etc. But there is one thing for which I cannot: eating meat. Including foie gras. Yet I do it because I'm weak.

What's your vice? :P

Meh, something must die so we all can live.

Your sensible foie gras indulgence is the last remnant of your peasant soul of what it takes to survive on your own on the land.
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Capetan Mihali

#13
November 16, 2011, 08:36:27 PM
Immoral:  littering.  Though hardly as much as in Philly where it was the norm.

Guilty:  drink, tobacco, etc.
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November 16, 2011, 08:40:22 PM
Quote from: Viking on November 16, 2011, 04:46:42 PM

torturing geese to death with corn feed is just horrible.. I acutally ate and found fois gras disgusting well before I found out what it was.

Well at least it wasn't done for religious reasons.
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