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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I mean, Vegans are morally superior, that's a solved question.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Can anyone downvoting this explain how vegans are not morally superior?

  • Not a vegan btw
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I would be very surprised. I am not even fully vegan myself, people just don't want to confront their own moral issues.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yes, they are, unless you can make the argument that animal suffering and environmental destruction are good things.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

being vegan doesn't do anything about those

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It reduces demand for meat, lowering production, ergo lowering environmental impact and animal suffering. Simple as.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It reduces demand for meat, lowering production

production increases every year.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Not as quickly if there were no Vegans. Veganism does lower demand.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

there is not any way to prove such a claim, as you cannot prove a counterfactual.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Are they just wasting money producing food they know isn't in demand? What are you on? You're goofy.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Thry certainly earn the smug reputation

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

This isn't about being smug or not. Veganism is morally superior as long as you consider that animals suffer for Human Consumption, envionmental impacts of animal products far outweigh vegan alternatives, and humans can get all of their nutrition from vegan sources.

The reason humans eat meat is for pleasure and profit, neither of which can be considered "morally superior" to the benefits of Veganism.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 4 months ago

They're better than you and it should be known.