On 4/6/2012 1:44 PM, Dutch wrote:
> "Rupert" > wrote
>>
>> What do you suppose would motivate the search if they didn't believe
>> (falsely) that it was the best way of trying to reduce harm to
>> animals? How would you make sense of what they are doing if they
>> didn't have that belief?
>
> They believe that by being vegan they achieve a certain moral standing
> and by consuming any animal parts at all they are tainted and that moral
> standing is threatened. They perceive it as the idea being "repulsive"
> or something to that effect.

Exactly. Thus, "the vegan shuffle".

No matter how they try to dance around it, there is a *huge* element of
aesthetics in the "vegan" pose - far more than there is ethics.