Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism?
Carrolade@lemmy.world 4 months agoThat’s only true in select places. Most people in one place can have different experiences from most people in a different place, due to the places being different environments with different populations.
The majority of the internet is definitely among the places you’ve described, though.
Source: I’ve lived in both types.
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 4 months ago
How do you know someone’s a vegan?
Don’t worry, they’ll tell you.
Same with any evangelical.
Carrolade@lemmy.world 4 months ago
That’s just incorrect. It’s pretty common not to find out until you’re talking about what to eat. I would imagine you’ve met vegans that you simply don’t know are vegan yet.
xtr0n@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
There are enough vegans who absolutely discuss their diet immediately to keep the joke alive. Given how difficult and isolating it can be in many places, I get how it can become really core to one’s identity.
Carrolade@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Very fair. My core point remains that it’s all about that
though. If you live in a region with more than a handful of vegans, you find very differently. It’s a personal pet peeve of mine when people try to paint their own experiences as “most people”, and all of any group as being just like those members they have met and are thinking about. It completely ignores several distinct internal mental biases, that are themselves making our world shittier because they lead to inaccurate conclusions, and are fairly natural unless you’ve received training to be made aware of them.
Statistical selection bias, confirmation bias, etc.
Because of this, it’s less a joke to me, and more just a pain in the ass. And I’m a happy carnivore that also does not like being preached to.