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"Ron" > wrote in message
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> In article >,
> usual suspect > wrote:
>
>> Twink Ron wrote:
>> >>>>>>This ignores the fact that animals die in the course of "vegan"
>> >>>>>>food
>> >>>>>>production, too. Those deaths -- through poisoning, mutilation,
>> >>>>>>drowning, predation, etc. -- are significantly more "cruel" than
>> >>>>>>the
>> >>>>>>humane slaughter which they object.
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>Killed, of course, by meat eaters.
>> >>>>
>> >>>>You mean by meat-eating farmers hired by urbanite vegans to produce
>> >>>>food
>> >>>>at the lowest possible price rather than the most peculiar set of
>> >>>>pseudo-ethics. Vegans are hypocritical scumbags, and so are you for
>> >>>>so
>> >>>>feebly attempting to defend them.
>> >>>
>> >>>Scumbag? *hand goes to forehead in shock and horror*
>> >>
>> >>Drama queen.
>> >
>> > *bats eye lashes in flattered state*

>>
>> It's not flattery. Well, not to normal people.
>>
>> >>>I find you evasive.
>> >>
>> >>Pot calling the kettle black. You write I'm evasive, while others have
>> >>written extensively that I'm too blunt.
>> >
>> > Blunt, as in being rude and abusive is different than evasive, as in
>> > elaborating on any point further than ....well, you know the drill.

>>
>> Some consider the elaborating to be rude and abusive: the truth hurts.
>>
>> >>>Please clarify what ethical or moral code that any
>> >>>vegan is violating.
>> >>
>> >>Easy: *their own*.
>> >
>> > I'll clarify,

>>
>> You're not clarifying, Twink, you're trying to evade the issue. Vegans
>> prate about their high standards and then have a perverse indifference
>> to the net results of their diet. Their standard is not causing animal
>> suffering and death. The *results* of their lifestyles are filled with
>> animal suffering and death. They have other options available to them to
>> minimize animal suffering and death, but they're content to make
>> meaningless gestures, such as their irrational obsessions about animal
>> parts.
>>
>> > what is the moral principle that you believe the vegan is
>> > violating when you state that they are not following their own moral
>> > code.

>>
>> It's a peculiar one of their own design, applied with tremendous amounts
>> of hypocrisy and sanctimony.
>>
>> > Is this the platinum rule, the golden, or some other unnamed moral
>> > code?

>>
>> It's an oxymoron called "vegan ethics."

>
> Oh, if only it were true that vegans believed as you did that they are
> some hom responsible for the actions and outcomes of others.
>
> You are responsible for me if you accept that premeditated murder is
> wrong. I expect you front and centre to accompany me tomorrow and keep
> me safe. Don't prove to be a hypocrite.

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If you ever went to school for this, I'd go demand my money back if I were
you. They failed you miserably, fool. Logic is really really hard for
you, isn't it?



 
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