Comment on I'm right and the other vegans are wrong
hans@feddit.org 2 weeks agothis has to be the height of intellectual laziness and bad faith. you’re not actually engaging with the person who typed the comment at all.
Comment on I'm right and the other vegans are wrong
hans@feddit.org 2 weeks agothis has to be the height of intellectual laziness and bad faith. you’re not actually engaging with the person who typed the comment at all.
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
Do you really believe that? :(
I’ll fill you in. Maybe you haven’t heard these points before, but vegans hear them every time they talk about what they won’t eat and why.
Is it intellectual laziness if the objections/rebuttals are so cliché that you can predict both sides with a bingo game? My hope was that would give readers pause about why they feel compelled to make the same points over and over again and again, expecting people on a PBD to justify their decision not to eat animal products.
hans@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
you’re not engaging with the other person at all. you’re treating them like they are a child to be taught. you have no idea whether they’ve seen these arguments before. you just threw a link at them.
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
I reread my responses and it’s possible they see things as you do, but I think it’s also possible you’re reading into a my comments a tone that isn’t borne out by the text or context.
Anyway, whatever it was, I guess it wasn’t the right approach. I really don’t think I “threw” a link at anyone, or said anything patronizing.
Also no one has answered any of my questions, so I’m not sure what I’m even doing here…
hans@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
no one ever demanded you justify your decision to eat plants
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
You replied to the wrong comment.
hans@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
no, I didn’t
hans@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
so don’t engage, but don’t pretend you’ve rebutted anything.
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
I was hoping they would read the like three paragraphs on that website about their points and maybe come back with a bit more nuance.
At least you’re actually engaging. The other one seems to have lost interest —maybe from me calling our back and forth cliché.
hans@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
or because they recognized how lazy and dismissive your response was, and they don’t care to be patronized.