(June 2, 2013 at 7:38 am)littleendian Wrote: Welcome! Vegans are of course used to the usual roll-eye responses, but it took some getting used to the stiff opposition to this idea even from people who supposedly are fans of reason. It's one thing to reason about theoretical constructs like "God" and it's a very different thing to actually apply ones thinking to ones own actions and ones very own dinner plate. Where it would actually matter for a change. Instead, people go on and on about whether God exists or not, which absolutely doesn't fucking matter nearly as much as our own actions here and now.
Never underestimate the power of herd thinking.
Only because this is an atheist forum, this does not mean that we only ask ourselves if god exists or not.
Your oversimplicistic description let`s it apear like if it were the only thing we debated.
In case you didnt notice last week when a british soldier was murdered by muslim thugs - religion has an impact on our life.
Certaintly it is interesting to debate the impact cattle farming may have on global warming - which may motivate to change eating habbits.
But debating over giving a chicken equal rights?!?!
