• Victoria Antoinette
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    111 days ago

    Do you seriously not understand this?

    my understanding of linear time, causation, and human behavior has led me to my current position. if you think you know something i don’t, i’d love to hear it.

    • @Nachorella@lemmy.sdf.org
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      11 days ago

      Did you consider my hypothetical? How does your understanding of causation make sense of that?

      edit: sorry, I didn’t see your other reply.

        • @Nachorella@lemmy.sdf.org
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          211 days ago

          That’s not how hypotheticals work. It’s just meant to expose the flaw in your logic. In this case you’re arguing that demand for a product is not related to supply. That when dvds came out and nobody wanted a vhs player anymore everyone kept making vhs players anyway because ‘that’s not causal’.

              • Victoria Antoinette
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                111 days ago

                i also explained that free agent’s actions can only be said to be caused by their own will. that means that “demand” can never cause “supply” (nor, truly, the other way around), since both those terms actually reflect the willful actions of free agents.

                • @Nachorella@lemmy.sdf.org
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                  211 days ago

                  Ok, I get you now. That’s just obtuse pedantry. If the demand for animal products goes down, so will supply. This gives an individual the power to lower supply, to choose not to has the same overall effect as killing a few animals. The distinction doesn’t matter. Your actions have consequences whether you like it or not. Animal ag cannot survive without money and whenever you buy animal products you are giving it to them.

                  • Victoria Antoinette
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                    111 days ago

                    If the demand for animal products goes down, so will supply

                    that’s not causal, and, also not what the theory of supply and demand says. the theory says that the price will decrease, not that production will.