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lena-the-anarchist · 5 months ago

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People who feel the need to morally grandstand over being vegan piss me off so much, being condescending is one of the worst ways to convince someone of something and its just so transparent that what they're there for is to make themselves feel morally righteous and superior, not to convince someone of something they believe in.

Are you vegan and if not how come

maybe don't suggest that a person with an eating disorder that gave them a heart murmur, chronic anemia, a 103 degree fever that lasted for nine months and amenorrhea should undertake a restrictive diet

#I'm still waiting for someone to convince me that veganism as a moral stance isn't contradictory #like I get it if it makes you more comfortable to not engage with one of the industries damaging our planet even if its not gonna change an #but if we take the presupposition that we have a duty to reduce harm by restricting diets to plants only where possible as true #then the logical conclusion is that we also have a duty to attempt to restrict the diet of every other omnivore species. but thats not a po #also fucking. Plants are alive too. You cannot survive without consuming once living things for sustenance #idk veganism has also always struck me as a view of nature thats essentially the inverse of capitalism #capitalism separates us from and elevates us above the environment to claim we have the right to exploit it #veganism separates us from and elevates us above the environment to claim that we have a duty to avoid interacting with it lest we sully it #hunting deer in yellowstone to maintain the biome is good when wolves do it but evil when humans do it. Because we're humans and Better™#neither conceptualizes of humans as equal participants in the biosphere. Part of which is yes killing and eating other participants #sorry for ranting in your tags I just do not understand veganism and it bothers me every time someone acts like its the obvious moral choic #cause they can never explain how! They just appeal to empathy and hope that works

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