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सोशल मीडिया पर निम्नस्तरीय टिप्पणियों को क्या जवाब दें? || आचार्य प्रशांत (2020)
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Animal Cruelty
Non-vegetarianism
Fallacious Arguments
Social Media
Veganism
Scientific Facts
Climate Change
TikTok
Description

Acharya Prashant responds to a question about how to deal with nonsensical and fallacious comments on his social media posts, specifically on Twitter. He begins by explaining that his original comments and short articles are published directly and exclusively on Twitter. The questioner refers to a tweet from May 15th, which Acharya Prashant identifies as being about non-vegetarianism. He describes the content of the tweet, which featured two images. The first was from a children's textbook asking which animals "give" milk. Acharya Prashant's commentary pointed out that animals do not give milk; it is forcibly extracted after forced impregnation, and their calves often end up as beef. He questioned which mother would give her milk to dozens of adults of another species. The second image was a cartoon of a happy chicken giving a thumbs-up, likely for a fried chicken brand. He called this an audacious display of cruelty, showing an animal happy about its own murder, and sarcastically asked if animals now plead to have their throats slit. Addressing the issue of fallacious arguments from commenters, Acharya Prashant states that such people are hiding their real reason for eating meat, which is simply for taste and out of habit. They lack the honesty to admit they kill animals for the lust of their tongue. Instead, they present superficial arguments to sound educated or scientific. He refutes common arguments, such as eating meat for protein, by explaining that animal protein is unhealthy, expensive, and inefficient compared to plant-based sources. He also dismisses absurd claims like needing to kill chickens to prevent their overpopulation or that fish are not living beings. His advice is to counter these arguments with facts and scientific data. He encourages the questioner to become well-informed on the subject, which will not only help in debates but also elevate his own understanding. He points out the hypocrisy in arguments about cow's milk, questioning what happened to cows before domestication and noting that a calf would die if it drank all its mother's milk. He asserts that the central cause of major global crises, including climate change, population explosion, and viral pandemics, is the abuse of animals—a fact supported by science, not just spirituality. He also mentions his own experiences with censorship on platforms like TikTok, which shadow-banned his account for posting content deemed "harmful" to its users.