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Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks agoI have the same advice for you as I have for vegans: let people eat what they want to eat, mind your business, and keep your preferences to yourself unless you’re asked.
It seems you fundamentally misunderstand what veganism is
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
I can’t tell if this is tongue in cheek or not.
In case not, you can be secretly vegan, you don’t have to get up in people’s business about it. You can just privately adjust your own diet
Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
It’s not tongue in cheek. You described veganism as a dietary preference, but it is an ethical belief and practice. Keeping silent in the face of unethical behavior is normally seen as cowardly or, at the least, not a general positive. If you came upon a person kicking a child, you would likely want to intervene, not merely think to yourself that you wouldn’t do the same.
Here’s a short medium post that sums it up decently, quoted for your convenience:
medium.com/…/why-do-people-still-think-vegan-is-a…
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Yeah, I think that’s kinda bullshit though, because there are plenty of things I refrain from myself due to ethical concerns but I don’t get righteous about with strangers.
For example, I think pickup trucks are unethical (for most people), because they’re dangerous on roads and environmentally wasteful, but I don’t patrol parking lots seeking to start fights with people driving pickups.
I personally think that factory farms are disgusting, so I only buy free-range eggs. But I don’t judge people who buy cheaper eggs.
You can practice your own ethics without throwing it into people’s faces. And besides, that strategy almost never results in converts.