31 Dec 20
@hakima saidIf you didn't want to lick an ice cream and only found yourself having to do so because you'd bought one for yourself and then if you were to complain about having to lick the ice cream, then that would - in a sense - mean you'd succumbed to a self-licking ice cream - certainly metaphorically, but also, arguably, ice-creamly too.
I prefer to lick my own ice creams. Of course, that would make them self-licking, wouldn’t it?.
I have always thought that ice creams should be left in their natural environment, rather than be exploited for their decadent use by another species. Habitat destruction is obviously a problem, but several projects to return ice creams to the wild have met with some success. Icecreamus vanilarus has been particularly successful in this regard, although Rippleus Raspberrium less so.
@indonesia-phil saidI find your sentimentality about habitats and exploitation tangential. As with animals, I don't see ice creams as having rights per se. I can only see legitimate, enforceable rights in terms of humans allowing or restricting their own rights viz a viz their interactions with ice creams. Only when ice creams can honour those responsibilities that correspond to any rights they lay claim to - and as soon as they are able to advocate and converse with humans about such matters and about the notion of rights more generally - only then will I consider ice creams to have rights. Until then there are only the rights to make, freeze, transport, display, sell, lick or eat them as we humans see fit.
I have always thought that ice creams should be left in their natural environment, rather than be exploited for their decadent use by another species. Habitat destruction is obviously a problem, but several projects to return ice creams to the wild have met with some success. Icecreamus vanilarus has been particularly successful in this regard, although Rippleus Raspberrium less so.
31 Dec 20
@fmf saidFossil records indicate that during the last ice age, various flavours of ice cream flourished as far south/north as + or - 40 degrees of latitude. Nowadays most flavours are restricted to polar regions or regions of high altitude, (minimum of 10 degrees below melting point). If we ignore the rights of such ancient luxury foods, I believe we do so at our peril.
I find your sentimentality about habitats and exploitation tangential. As with animals, I don't see ice creams as having rights per se. I can only see legitimate, enforceable rights in terms of humans allowing or restricting their own rights viz a viz their interactions with ice creams. Only when ice creams can honour those responsibilities that correspond to any rights they lay ...[text shortened]... re only the rights to make, freeze, transport, display, sell, lick or eat them as we humans see fit.
@fmf saidYou obscene and derogatory post deserves all the negative thumbs it is getting from The Spooky Chamber of Misfits.
As the year draws to its end, now is the time to confess if you have ever succumbed to self-licking ice creams. It won't be held against you. Your candour will be admired.
Edit; Licked
@fmf saidI have alerted this post because of its racism against animals. You truly are a reprehensible human being.
I find your sentimentality about habitats and exploitation tangential. As with animals, I don't see ice creams as having rights per se. I can only see legitimate, enforceable rights in terms of humans allowing or restricting their own rights viz a viz their interactions with ice creams. Only when ice creams can honour those responsibilities that correspond to any rights they lay ...[text shortened]... re only the rights to make, freeze, transport, display, sell, lick or eat them as we humans see fit.
PS your 13 attempts to edit out the hate has NOT worked!
01 Jan 21
@divegeester saidI won't be cowed by your doubleplusgoodspeak.
I have alerted this post because of its racism against animals. You truly are a reprehensible human being.