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Default Always put quotes around "vegan"

On Mar 18, 6:16*pm, George Plimpton > wrote:
> On 3/18/2012 1:07 AM, Rupert wrote:
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> > On Mar 18, 2:33 am, George > *wrote:
> >> On 3/17/2012 3:33 PM, Rupert wrote:

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> >>> On Mar 17, 8:00 pm, George > * *wrote:
> >>>> On 3/17/2012 8:33 AM, Rupert wrote:

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> >>>>> On Mar 17, 3:50 pm, George > * * *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 ugly.

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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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> >>>> There isn't any such authentic desire. *It's really all about the ego
> >>>> and self-image of the so-called "vegan".

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> >>> This belief of yours strikes me as irrational.

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> >> No, it doesn't. *You just say that to try to deflect attention from you
> >> own ego gratification and self-exaltation.

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> > How exactly do you think I am trying to exalt myself

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> Believing that you're "better" than omnivores based on what you don't eat..


I don't.