"usual suspect" > wrote in message
...
> Scented Nectar wrote:
> > "Dutch" > wrote in message
> > ...
> >
> >>"Scented Nectar" > calls herself
> >>
> >>
> >>>Killer of some bugs and a few
> >>>worms.
> >>
> >>You are refusing to recognize the deaths of the many invertebrates,
birds
> >>and mammals that your comfortable lifestyle is built upon. Your weak
> >>attempts to dismiss them by using words like "mostly wrong" are pathetic
> >
> > and
> >
> >>immoral in the extreme. You insist on creating this glorified image of
> >>yourself, but refuse to acknowledge either the animals that die to serve
> >>your daily wants and needs, or those people who do better than you but
who
> >>don't follow your rules. You are a perfect example of the closed-minded
> >>bigotry that "veganism" creates.
> >
> >
> > Immoral in the extreme?
>
> Yes.

Do you personally find the
cds to be immoral?

> > Glorified image?
>
> Yes.
>
> > No more than any other person of
> > good self esteem.
>
> The difference is most people acquire their esteem from successful
> endeavors. You build yours through what you eat/won't eat, and through
> your chronic buck-passing.

There is nothing wrong with
feeling good about what I eat.
You do it yourself, don't you?
You seem to consider yourself
a flexitarian, if I'm not mistaken.

> > I fully realize
> > that cds happen,
>
> You do nothing to minimize them in your own consumption.

My change from a meat
eater to veg was enough
of a change to drastically
reduce them. I don't
expect extremes from
myself, so I'm happy
enough from that.

> > but I also see
> > that animal products as a whole
> > cause much more.
>
> Tu quoque fallacy.

It's no fallacy.

> > If you want
> > to discuss the fringe meat Rick
> > eats, let's compare it to vegan
> > food someone has grown with
> > no cds.
>
> You would still be objecting only to +1 (1001st) death.

No. It would be 1 death to
0 deaths.


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