It’s unfortunate how often I’ve heard this post’s argument in the wild. It’s always been strange to me how people seem to equate “I’m vegetarian” with “everyone should be vegetarian.” As if it’s a given that if one holds a position or belief, they must invariably want to force it on others. It’s a sad state where people can’t comprehend individuals wanting to just do their own thing.
I’m talking as someone who’s never preached, doesn’t go looking for conversations about vegetarianism/veganism, who just occasionally responds to someone’s question of, “What are you having for lunch?” I don’t tell people I’m vegan IRL until it becomes important, because the admission often comes with an interview and/or silly arguments that appear out of the blue. I’m just trying to get through my day, like everyone else. I’m not looking to convert you, I’m not trying to make eating meat illegal, there’s no mass cow genocide in the works, I’m simply sitting here eating hummus. Chill.
A lot of people will attach a morality to their belief structure to basically validate their personal opinions. So it’s not a difference of opinion you are immoral if you don’t eat how I eat because I’m choosing the morally good diet. It’s why it’s hard to have disagreeing discourse these days as people have formed their identity around their beliefs and their beliefs are justified by a contrived moral framework so there can’t be a disagreement as this would be both a personal attack on their identity as well as a moral attack and admission of moral failure and who would listen to the opinion of an immoral person
This is an abstraction of a phenomenon that’s been happening in increasing amounts over the last couple decades and the sperging vegan is a very amusing example of this
It’s unfortunate how often I’ve heard this post’s argument in the wild. It’s always been strange to me how people seem to equate “I’m vegetarian” with “everyone should be vegetarian.” As if it’s a given that if one holds a position or belief, they must invariably want to force it on others. It’s a sad state where people can’t comprehend individuals wanting to just do their own thing.
I’m talking as someone who’s never preached, doesn’t go looking for conversations about vegetarianism/veganism, who just occasionally responds to someone’s question of, “What are you having for lunch?” I don’t tell people I’m vegan IRL until it becomes important, because the admission often comes with an interview and/or silly arguments that appear out of the blue. I’m just trying to get through my day, like everyone else. I’m not looking to convert you, I’m not trying to make eating meat illegal, there’s no mass cow genocide in the works, I’m simply sitting here eating hummus. Chill.
there are animal genocides going on tho
A lot of people will attach a morality to their belief structure to basically validate their personal opinions. So it’s not a difference of opinion you are immoral if you don’t eat how I eat because I’m choosing the morally good diet. It’s why it’s hard to have disagreeing discourse these days as people have formed their identity around their beliefs and their beliefs are justified by a contrived moral framework so there can’t be a disagreement as this would be both a personal attack on their identity as well as a moral attack and admission of moral failure and who would listen to the opinion of an immoral person
This is an abstraction of a phenomenon that’s been happening in increasing amounts over the last couple decades and the sperging vegan is a very amusing example of this