| Orxudan |
02-13-2011 02:48 PM |
I agree that a lot of vegans are really annoying, seem really pretentious about their diets, but I also think vegan haters are equally annoying with their willful ignorance... i mean yea, you're real manly for going to the grocery store and gorging yourself on meat, you badass.
People have evolved to eat meat. You'll actually become vitamin deficient if you don't eat any animal products and don't supplement your diet. Also, meat tastes really good and it can be pretty miserable to deprive yourself of it. Still, factory farming an animal for its meat, eggs, or milk causes a lot of suffering... a pretty fucked up amount. A cow, chicken, pig, whatever, is not smart like a human but it's pretty impossible to deny that it can't feel pain exactly the same way a human can. So what is the difference between slaughtering a pig and eating it and slaughtering a 3 year old orphan and eating it, besides the legality of it? They'd both suffer about the same amount.
But of course, this kind of thing happens on a huge scale every second of every day. Lions are eating buffalos alive, sharks are eating seals, bears are eating people, etc. Still, if someone is willing to deprive themselves of animal products to reduce the total amount of suffering that exists, I think that's a good thing to do. If that person then goes on to feel that he's better than everyone else, well, that's what humans like to do, just accept it with equanimity. It's no different than you thinking you're better than all the vegans because they're all pussies. The only difference is, you're pretentious and you're also going to hell. fucking murderer.
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