Seen a lot of posts on Lemmy with vegan-adjacent sentiments but the comments are typically very critical of vegan ideas, even when they don’t come from vegans themselves. Why is this topic in particular so polarising on the internet? Especially since unlike politics for example, it seems like people don’t really get upset by it IRL
Veganism IS morally correct. I eat meat because I like it, but ethically, environmentally, it’s clearly worse than eating meat. It’s ok to admit you do things which aren’t morally the best
I don’t think you get to make a black and white, general argument about this. How about this: if a person raises and cares for a chicken, giving it a charmed live it would have otherwise never had, but takes and eats its unfertilised eggs, then that’s not morally wrong.
It’s just not as obvious as people think, and your first sentence is a naive oversimplification and a great example of the kind of lazy argument I’m talking about. But I don’t want to get into it with my friends since it’s such a touchy subject, and I’ll never get a decent conversation about it online.
You were talking about eating meat and I clearly mentioned eating meat in my response. Eggs is a different topic
Veganism is the topic. Vegans don’t eat eggs.
Well enjoy talking to yourself then
You’re proving my point quite nicely
Talk about a. Gets response to a. Responds about B. Gets upset when it’s pointed out that a is not B. Crows about being proven right. Whatever
~that’s you. That’s you talking about veganism.
Yes and I was right. Thanks for agreeing
Fully agree. Honestly there’s a few subjects where this kinda logic comes up and I get annoyed. Like it’s fine to not be perfect, but don’t pretend that you aren’t perfect, or that your choices are somehow ‘good’ when they aren’t, just because you don’t like the realization.