Always put quotes around "vegan"
<dh@.> wrote in message ...
> On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 13:44:20 -0700, "Dutch" > wrote:
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>><dh@.> wrote in message ...
>>> On Sat, 17 Mar 2012 13:48:14 -0700, "Dutch" > wrote:
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>>>>
>>>>"Rupert" > wrote
>>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>>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.
>>>
>>> They SHOULD care especially since they try to PRETEND to care, but
>>> it's
>>> the
>>> same as you and your anticonsideration from my pov,
>>
>>Its not the same, because your so-called "consideration" is self-serving
>>prattle, similar in many ways to the self-serving prattle that vegans
>>spew.
>
> Your insistance that anti-consideration is superior
It is when the "consideration" is self-serving prattle.
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