MONEY.

[Fan:] Can you comment on Neil deGrasse Tyson supposed cosmic perspective about veganism from his book "cosmic perspectives" including releasing mice from basements and hypothetical sentient plant people? I wrote this before but ig it got deleted because I added links to videos where he discusses this; humane hancock channel for example

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[Me:] I do a whole lot of work pro bono, but it is neither reasonable nor ethical for you to ask me to do this for free: I'd have to receive donations tantamount to minimum wage multiplied by the number of hours reasonably required to read the book —or perhaps double that rate— to compel me to do it.  I did read and review Stendhal for free, recently… but Tyson is not Stendhal.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjY2RB3T2Fc

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[Fan:] Well you dont really need to read the entire book. His arguments are pretty trivial and he basically summarized them in humane hancocks latest video which is like 50min. It boils down to "actually vegans release mice from their basements instead of living them in their basements so abusing animals is fine" and also "sentient plant aliens are as horrified about you eating plants as you are about me eating animals, also trees bleed btw"

Would be interesting to hear you tear him down as you do ofcourse but if you dont wanna I understand.

I definitely dont have the money to pay you for reading the book unless youre a real quick reader

I think the entire premise of this physics guy dipping his toes into philosophy or veganism and offering his entirely basic justification for abusing animals as some kind of "cosmic perspective" is hilariously stupid

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[Me:] Re: "I definitely dont have the money to pay you for reading the book unless youre a real quick reader"  Start a fundraiser, open up a GoFundMe, and collect donations for all I care: I am telling you that it is immoral and inappropriate for you to ask me to do many hours of work for free. The fact that I so often do so much work for free only makes it more inappropriate that you're asking, not less. https://www.gofundme.com/f/veganvania-delete-the-meat

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[Fan:] Shitting on famous people for doing stupid takes that harm others is kinda your thing so I was kinda hoping it would be something youd like to do anyways...

But hey since you like vegan romhacks we can make a deal; If you comment on his cosmic perspective then Im gonna build a vegan mod for crusader kings 3. Or is it too new game for you?

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[Me:] Well, I've got to give you some credit: you're the first computer programmer to attempt to BARTER with me.  ;-)