RE: About vegans
November 26, 2017 at 4:49 pm
(This post was last modified: November 26, 2017 at 6:44 pm by Catholic_Lady.)
(November 26, 2017 at 4:28 pm)Mermaid Wrote:(November 26, 2017 at 4:16 pm)Aroura Wrote: I know vegans, and I know there are vegetarians and vegans on these forums.
They never bring it up unless someone else brings it up first.
I do know one guy who can be a bit pretentious about it. But he's like that about everything!
I actually find people who have a problem with vegetarians and vegans to be much more outspoken and obnoxious than vegetarians and vegans. Every time someone brings it up in a forum like this, someone inevitably says "PETA means People for Eating Tasty Animals".
I have had vegetarian parts of my life, and people actually yelled at me about it.
Somehow it's threatening.
I think for some people the notion of others forgoing meat for moral reasons threatens their own sense of morality. It makes them feel insecure about their own character and they deal with that insecurity by, surprise surprise, being jerks and making snarky comments.
(November 26, 2017 at 4:40 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote:(November 26, 2017 at 4:28 pm)Mermaid Wrote: I actually find people who have a problem with vegetarians and vegans to be much more outspoken and obnoxious than vegetarians and vegans. Every time someone brings it up in a forum like this, someone inevitably says "PETA means People for Eating Tasty Animals".
I have had vegetarian parts of my life, and people actually yelled at me about it.
Somehow it's threatening.
Don't take the PETA thing wrong, they are a rather dubious organization.
I don't think that was her point.
"Of course, everyone will claim they respect someone who tries to speak the truth, but in reality, this is a rare quality. Most respect those who speak truths they agree with, and their respect for the speaking only extends as far as their realm of personal agreement. It is less common, almost to the point of becoming a saintly virtue, that someone truly respects and loves the truth seeker, even when their conclusions differ wildly."
-walsh
-walsh