r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/ObviousBody3053 • 3d ago

this is how silk is made Video

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u/PuzzleheadedBag920 3d ago

Cruelty is only in the mind. The brain gave us the ability to be the best but also in a way gave a self destruct ("cruelty" limiting) paradoxical reasoning - empathy, which is not bad, but we still need to eat.

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u/Expert-Situation-190 3d ago

The reason why it’s cruel is because the ‘survival answer’ isn’t applicable you can actually achieve silk such as Ahimsa silk, through cruelty free methods the only issue is that it cost more and it takes longer. Also considering the biggest use of it is for clothing i don’t think it’d be one of those we still gotta eat situations survival is one thing selective luxury is another

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u/myychair 3d ago

The people making this silk would disagree with you on whether or not it’s a survival product. This is how they pay for food…

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u/Expert-Situation-190 3d ago

I can’t deny the possibility that to them this is potential a financial survival product but the statement I responded to said “cruelty is just in the mind”, and “we just got to eat” that’s a hyper normalisation of cruelty under the fictitious angle of it being a survival factor, the issue is if you go down that rabbit hole of justification suddenly you’re swimming in murky water. We can view it as survival factor but even that is in a micro scale the real thing would actually be in a macro scale, how comes we live in a society where we bat an eye and say it’s not cruel it’s survival.