• Victoria Antoinette @lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      The guy wouldn’t have paid the guy if you weren’t going to pay him.

      i have no agreement to purchase meat in the future. most people don’t.

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          9 months ago

          they can’t know that. knowledge is a justified true belief. since the future has not happened, it has no truth value, and, as such, future knowledge is impossible. they do not know whether i will purchase meat in the future. qed

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      9 months ago

      you pay the guy who pays the guy who kills the animals

      most people don’t do that, either. meat packers will get it from the abattoirs, who will then sell it to suppliers, and there might be two or three suppliers before anyone sells it to a grocer or restaurant.

      the animal isn’t killed because i create demand, except for meanings of “cause” that don’t require a causal relationship.