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Default Always put quotes around "vegan"

On Mar 17, 3:50*pm, George Plimpton > wrote:
> On 3/17/2012 1:05 AM, Rupert wrote:
>
> > On Mar 15, 6:12 am, George > *wrote:
> >> It's just a hideously ugly fake word on its face, and the loathsome
> >> ideas and false beliefs encapsulated in it are even more hideously ugly.

>
> > What's ugly about the ideas involved in veganism?

>
> False morality is inherently ugly, especially when it involves self
> exaltation and sanctimony.


I don't believe that a desire to do something about animal suffering
is inherently ugly, and I don't believe that it involves self-
exaltation and sanctimony.