"Dirk McDougal" > wrote in message
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> Yung Duk Dong wrote:
> > Dirk McDougal wrote:
> >
> >> Yung Duk Dong wrote:
> >>
> >>> MrFalafel wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>> And when the ALF or ELF kill somebody, I hope that you feel some
> >>>>> remorse for
> >>>>> donating to an organization
> >>>>> that supports them.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> I sure hope the trolls don't post so much so I won't have to give
> >>>> money to PETA. It's all on them, you know. They've been warned!
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Is that supposed to be funny? Oops, I forgot to laugh. You do seem
> >>> like enough of a tool to donate money on such specious grounds,
though.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Neither he nor the nitwit who originally suggested donations to PeTA
> >> as a response to "trolls" has made or will make any such donations.
> >> It was merely trolling on their part; it was also a lie.
> >
> >
> > I know. It's kinda desperate that they think they can scare off others
> > with outright deceit in the silliest form of bribery I've ever seen. I
> > wonder if such incoherent thinking is from organic mental illness or
> > just malnourishment. Maybe both?
>
> I have a well developed theory about
> self-marginalization and auto-alienation. "veganism"
> is a conscious embrace of a pseudo-ethics that the
> embracer KNOWS will marginalize him. Deliberately
> adopting a marginalizing philosophy is symptomatic of
> mental illness. Being marginalized, and suffering from
> the alienation that marginalization produces, is viewed
> by rational people as a bad, damaging thing. No
> mentally and emotionally sound person would *willingly*
> marginalize himself, but that's precisely what "vegans"
> knowingly do.
>
ehhh...(your post might be sarcastic, but i really can't tell in print, so
i'll respond.)
i disagree. vegans can be 'marginalized,' to an extent, but there's also a
very strong vegan community, even if it's largely electronic for many folks.
that can be very supportive, and doesn't leave you feeling marginalized at
all. knowing at least one other veg*n in person also tends to dissolve any
lonliness. besides, vegans don't adopt their lifestyle for the PURPOSE of
marginalizing themselves. so it really isn't a 'marginalizing philosophy.'
that's like calling monks mentally ill for their lifestyle choice.
different reason, but similar outcome. they are more marginalized from the
mainstream, but living within a very strong community. comparatively,
vegans are marginalized mostly in the dietary sense, but still interact with
others normally in the school/work/family sense, etc. besides, isn't
everyone marginalized on all but superficial levels? we're all just
completely alone, isolated, specks of dust in the universe, right? ()