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Default The 'vegan' shuffle

On Mar 10, 5:16*pm, George Plimpton > wrote:
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> > On 10 Mrz., 15:00, George > *wrote:

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> >>>> One. *Big ****ing deal. *Meanwhile, if you eat a serving of soybeans
> >>>> from a field that killed a couple of thousand animals, you bear moral
> >>>> responsibility for all of them - we have established that everyone who
> >>>> consumes the product bears responsibility for the entire population of
> >>>> CDs, not some goofy pro rata share.

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> >>> You didn't establish any such thing.

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> >> It is established.

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> > Is it established by means of some argument, or by the fact that you
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> It's established. *You know it is.
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That's not an answer to the question.

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> >>>> There is simply no getting around the fact that you ****wits are
> >>>> assigning some vague, touchy-feely emotional value to livestock animals.
> >>>> * * You don't want to eat them, and you can't really say why. *You try,
> >>>> but you fail. *You come up with heavy volumes of turgid, leaden
> >>>> gobbledygook to try to give it a patina of "scholarship", but in the end
> >>>> it's nothing but your childish feelings.

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> >>>> It really is a head-in-the-sand belief system. *You don't want to eat
> >>>> meat because with each bite, you'd be thinking about the poor little
> >>>> roly-poly piggy or the sad-eyed moo-cow that was killed, or the grieving
> >>>> hen mommy who lost her eggs. *But because your cooked vegetable mush
> >>>> left the animals it caused to die in the fields, unseen, you - being
> >>>> children - can easily ignore them. *Out of sight, out of mind.

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> >>>> I don't think you idiots have any idea of the extent to which normal
> >>>> people view you as emotional children.

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> >>> You also think that I don't believe you're an idiot.

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> >> You don't.

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> > And that I have a "head-in-the-sand" belief system.

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> You do.