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[–] Teppichbrand@feddit.de 0 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Well... Raping is wrong, right? Say there is this guy, he doesn't always rape, just sometimes when he's in the mood. But not always. Should we applaud this flexi-rapist for doing something aweful a little less?

[–] myrrh@ttrpg.network 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

...my wife eats meat: you know what she eats a heck of a lot less of since moving in with me?..you know what she'd've eaten a heck of a lot more of if i weren't tolerant?..

...don't make perfect the enemy of good; you'll do a heck of a lot less good and be surprised when you learn that your perfect isn't...

[–] Teppichbrand@feddit.de 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm vegan a long time now, sometimes I lose my patience because it feels like I'm talking to 8 year olds all the time. Carnism ia real, the fragile meat-egos, the bullshit bingo, the same lame arguments make me loose my patience sometimes. But obviously you have a point.

[–] boomzilla@programming.dev 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

In my note app I've saved my old replies I'm fairly confident of regarding research, impact and links to sources and fire them up against the standard arguments. It's cheap but it would be madness to answer the age old cliches popping up in mass under a controversional vegan post with individual new answers. The definition of Sisyphus work. I refine the posts to take deviations from standard arguments into account. I don't spam them in a thread of full of the same cliche answers but tactically under one of them with a lot of upvotes/likes. This saves me some headaches and at least I know I countered the disinformation at least once and will maybe make some people see that the most regurgitated answers are not per se the most correct just because of their prevalence.

[–] Teppichbrand@feddit.de 0 points 5 months ago

Damn, I am still sisyphussing!

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Well rape is illegal, but honestly I see the equivalence, morally. That's the age old question posed by harm reduction, and I think, answered by it too. And this hardline viewpoint may work on some people, so it's a good one to bring up.

My take is that it's got nothing to do with rewarding less bad behaviour, but about reducing the amount of harm in the world. AFAIK there's no evidence that encouraging someone to be partially vegan actually props up modern horror farming any more than arguing for pure veganism.

Further, I think you can argue for both. Treat one as a gateway to the other.

The fact is we're unlikely to see animal eating outlawed in our lifetime, so we've got to work within the confines of rhetoric, or I guess terrorism.

[–] Teppichbrand@feddit.de 0 points 5 months ago

Yeah I agree. Usually I am more patient and understanding as well, but today I decided to be a little confronting. There is no right way, as long as we do anything at all, I guess.

[–] nyctre@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You're not technically wrong, but you'll never convert anyone with your attitude. You're doing veganism a disservice. Please stop.

[–] Teppichbrand@feddit.de 0 points 5 months ago

Just planting seeds, some like it, some don't. I'll be a little less harsh next time.