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Originally Posted by Evia
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I've been vegetarian for 12 years. Off and on vegan...but that's the ultimate goal.
The first couple of years I sounded alot like barkingturtle. Online, at school, at work, I was constantly talking about it. Because it was so insane to me that we as a culture slaughtered helpless animals to eat their flesh and nobody batted an eye about it. In fact, I was the "weird" one because I questioned the practice. Fast forward though and now I actively avoid talking to anyone about any of my beliefs. At the end of the day it gets exhausting and frustrating arguing or debating with things their not interested in realistically spending some critical thinking on. I gave up trying to educate people and just accepted that some people see what I see and some don't.
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I find a lot of the time people are more accepting of conversation about controversial issues when they don't feel like they're being pressured into buying into something they don't necessarily fully agree with. A lot of vegans I encounter always believe they have all the right answers. I get that they're passionate, but nobody wants to be patronized and annoyed. And no, it's not that other people are oversensitive. It's that they need to find a better way to initiate and talk about the subject if they intend on "educating" people. When you go full retard right from the start people are just going to shut down.