Smirk

It's not meant for you. I can assume it's meant for people whom it does bother, and also don't know.

Nothing of value to add?

Peace.

And you still support animal abuse when you don't have to.

Take care, and try and lead a better life mate.

It's OK. Your veiled attempt at good faith discussion is textbook, so was expected.

It's not my goal to make YOU individually vegan. Others can read and evaluate my reasoning, and by extension, the lack of yours.

I advocate for widespread prolonged de-use and eventually abolition of animals as objects in societies that don't need to.

What you've amounted to saying is "if the world can't be 100% vegan, why try?"

Let's try this then-

Me: "respect women"

Misogynist: "You realize we don't want to do that, and aren't going to, right?

Unless both you and I agree on regulation, misogyny will continue uncontested.

I think we need better regulation, do you? Are you willing to accept that I won't become a feminist, and take the compromise of continued sexism with strict punishment for female abuse?"

Or this one's good-

Me: "don't be racist"

Racist: "You realize we don't want to do that, and aren't going to, right?

Unless both you and I agree on regulation, racist will continue uncontested.

I think we need better regulation, do you? Are you willing to accept that I won't become a non-racist, and take the compromise of continued racism with strict punishment for lynching?"

If the feminist movement met up against people saying what you're saying, what do you think their response would be?

And similarly, what would MLK say to you?

No, before you call out my comparison, I'm not comparing racism to sexism to animal abuse. I'm comparing the rhetoric used to defend the acts themselves. And it's awfully similar.

In summation; I choose consistency in my morality, based on this: if the topic is different, but my rhetoric to justify is the same, check my biases.

People are just simply inconsistent with their justifications, mainly due to detachment from the reality.

Not worth my time.

Please try and lead a better life.

But what good is worrying?

Become vegan and actually act.

"But then you wouldn't get all worked up about it"

READ: "You're right"

Take care mate, it's only a post. Peace

Not bad, both easily plausible. Next time you disagree, offer a civil counterclaim and it's more likely to go down well.

How hard was that?

Seems like a fair assessment, even if it's unprovable. Not a bad heuristic to assume things get adopted from the biggest show to have ever aired.

You got a counter claim?

Annnnnd you just went full PETA on me.

What does this mean? If you can't challenge what I put, and resort to ad hominim, this is just textbook anti peta parroting whatever supports your narrative...

I'm a huge animal lover

Oh awesome me too! How long have you been vegan? :)

Yeah I'll be honest, i thought exactly the same as you about PETA before going vegan. But if you're vegan, you're intent on reducing the suffering of animals right? So it's not too much of a leap to imagine a world where the people with the most money and the most to lose have orchestrated an incredibly effective smear campaign.

I'm giving you the benefit of doubt and assuming you're here in good faith. As a fellow vegan, you must understand the commodification of sentient beings is absolutely unnecessary in 2023

The reason their kill shelters are so high is literally in the info dump above. If you don't want to read that's fine, but you have no valid argument till you do.