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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Charlaquin" data-source="post: 9761146" data-attributes="member: 6779196">What I’m saying is, I think it’s a completely different thing than what’s being restricted. Like, to use an analogy, would you say that eating a plant-based meat substitute like Beyond Meat is a “loophole” around the restriction against eating meat during lent? I wouldn’t, because it isn’t meat. That it is similar in taste to meat doesn’t make it a loophole, it’s just a different thing that the restriction doesn’t cover or even attempt to cover. On the other hand, eating beaver meat during lent, because the Catholic Church defines beavers as fish (specifically to allow eating them during lent in places where fish are hard to come by*) is absolutely a loophole. A workaround to the restriction that allows you to functionally get away with doing the thing you aren’t supposed to be allowed to do, because weasely definitions of “meat” and “fish” give you plausible deniability.*thats a real thing by the way! I didn’t just make it up</blockquote>