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Real talk I'm fine with hurting crabs for our own means. Straight up.

Whoa! That's some Human Supremacist talk there.

Hell yeah. Whole point is to get the species off the rock, then out of the meat suit

Pretty sure I played a horror game with that concept once... SOMA?

I personally would like to become a conscious cloud of gas.

Or mammal supremacist. Or vertebrate supremacist. There are options

Real talk I’m fine with hurting other living beings that aren’t me for my own means. Straight up.

That's literally life. Unless you're a plant, you're killing things to eat.

And if you’re a plant, either you’re eating things that were already killed and/or outright killing other plants for their blood or to take their sunlight. And that’s if you don’t mention carnivorous plants which, ik eat animals

Kinda? I think it's more accurate to say that the nutrients they need from the soil are from decomposed dead things. Competition for sunlight is a real thing, but I'm not sure if that counts. I suppose it does, since it's all about survival. Same would go for species that have fights with themselves.

I know it sucks, but they play an invaluable role in modern medicine, I hope that we can find an alternative to using them, but AFAIK there is nothing that works in the same manner yet.

They may have a substitute in the pipeline

https://www.freethink.com/health/horseshoe-crabs-blue-blood

discovered that a molecule in LAL called factor C was responsible for its clotting action. Researchers genetically modified the guts of insects—who belong to the same phylum as horseshoe

They're chelicerates though, not crustaceans. But then again, apparently everything evolves into crabs anyway

everything evolves into crabs anyway

Does that mean I can become a crab too?

Get to walking sideways and eating mud, friend!

They all serve a purpose in their own way, this one specifically does a great job!

I'm fine with hurting all wildlife.

Edit: if you realized this was satire, then congrats! If you didn't, then congrats!