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I feel that you don't want to change your mind anyway, and are happy to show us how smart you are by purposefully doing the opposite of what people hope to get

I feel that you don't want to change your mind anyway, and are happy to show us how smart you are by purposefully doing the opposite of what people hope to get you do after reading the article. To me, your comment reads as someone saying that reading an article about lung cancer didn't deter them from smoking and actually reminded them to go and buy a pack of smokes. Or how an article about global warming reminded them they had to buy a gas guzzler today. Or reading an article about how cars should share the road with bicycles and saying it reminds you you didn't drive today and you're off to doing punishing passes and coal rolling cyclists. Good for you, people can't tell you what to do and you know exactly what buttons to push to show how smart you are. You might not agree with the article, but your reaction is ridiculous.

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drenvuk 8y ago
You're reading me a bit wrong, though maybe the last sentence was me being an asshole while also failing to explicitly point out what's wrong with their approach. You're correct that I don't feel like changing my mind but that's because their argument is old and I know that I enjoy meat. The objective was to point out that instead of trying to make meat eaters feel bad they should just make it easier for us to make better food choices. Food that we don't have to explicitly search for. I'm not going to pick a food because it has a label for "vegetarian" or "vegan". I don't care. I pick what tastes good and is mostly healthy. Many other people have that line of thought besides me. Those kinds of people won't be attracted by those two terms and the moral implications behind them alone. If the food was good enough and marketed enough you wouldn't even need mostly useless articles like this. That was what I was trying to point out. Hopefully you understand now.

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drenvuk 8y ago

You're reading me a bit wrong, though maybe the last sentence was me being an asshole while also failing to explicitly point out what's wrong with their approach. You're correct that I don't feel like changing my mind but that's because their argument is old and I know that I enjoy meat. The objective was to point out that instead of trying to make meat eaters feel bad they should just make it easier for us to make better food choices. Food that we don't have to explicitly search for. I'm not going to pick a food because it has a label for "vegetarian" or "vegan". I don't care. I pick what tastes good and is mostly healthy. Many other people have that line of thought besides me. Those kinds of people won't be attracted by those two terms and the moral implications behind them alone. If the food was good enough and marketed enough you wouldn't even need mostly useless articles like this. That was what I was trying to point out. Hopefully you understand now.