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Do you think it's bad for someone to persuade someone else to stop eating factory-farmed meat? I don't see how that can be considered negative either. Can you?
by RodericDay 12y ago
Do you think it's bad for someone to persuade someone else to stop eating factory-farmed meat?
I don't see how that can be considered negative either. Can you?
- beat 12y agoThe problem is when it stops being persuading, and starts being haranguing and elitism... using veganism as a way to feel and act superior to others. Which surely happens. As I said earlier, a vegan friend was complaining to me this week about exactly that, and he's not the first, nor will he be the last. If my daughter was just getting on the vegans she knows for eating junk food, not good food like she does, it would be one thing. Instead, she leads by example, teaching them to be better and healthier vegans. Something analogous would be a vegan making a beautiful, delicious vegan meal for a meat eater who thinks a vegetarian diet is dull and poor in nutrition. That's not proselytizing, imho.
- RodericDay 12y agoI'm not sure you have an unbiased perspective on what constitutes elitist or haranguing. Progressives were called sanctimonious niggerlovers, butch (women) and effeminate (men) when they rallied for the progressive issues of their day, and all of this talk about them "acting superior" seems like a lazy coat of paint on top of not liking what they're preaching. Additionally, it seems to be all second-hand, as is usually the case. I've never ran into militant vegetarians, they honestly seem like a figment of the american imagination. And at the very end you're trying to go back on admitting your daughter is proselytizing, by complimenting her cooking skills. I think you're quite confused about your principles.