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Rupert Rupert is offline
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Default Always put quotes around "vegan"

On Mar 17, 9:48*pm, "Dutch" > wrote:
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> > On Mar 17, 3:50 pm, George Plimpton > wrote:
> >> On 3/17/2012 1:05 AM, Rupert wrote:

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

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

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> > I don't believe that a desire to do something about animal suffering
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> > exaltation and sanctimony.

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> This issue of collateral death and suffering does not exist in the conscious
> awareness of the vast majority of vegans. When it is introduced to them, two
> reactions outnumber all others by a wide margin, the first is denial, the
> second is 'I'm still doing better than meat eaters'. Concern about the death
> and suffering they just became aware of virtually never comes into it, and
> certainly not anywhere near to the level of the concern they claim to have
> for farmed animals. This is compelling evidence that veganism is primarily
> about maintaining a holy image, by the implication that the diet and
> lifestyles of most people is tantamount to barbarism. This is the ugly part,
> there's almost a Muslim-like zeal to it.


I don't really have any way of knowing. You're presumably basing your
remarks on the usenet vegans you have met. I don't have any way of
knowing whether this says anything about the vegans I know. I also
don't know why I would care.