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If your goal is to get people to dislike vegans, you're doing a bangup job
There are people who would be vegan, if it weren't for the fact they'd be associated with people like you
The negative perception you create is that strong
Oh please. It would just be something else. If you want an excuse to avoid changing your habits you'll find it.
Why should the attitude of vegans even matter? "Somebody who supports your rights was rude to me once so now I won't support yours." Is that your principle?
You already lost the people who would do it for the status quo more than the idea, you know, like most human beings work because a lot of us are selfish and narcissistic? Congrats on vegans for that! I don't wanna be compared to vegans like that, so, fuck it, I will eat meat again, because these vegans have shown me that they are as dumb and evil as any other, and I was doing veganism because I thought it'd make me look like a good person. I don't care if you mock my conviction or sincerity, I am a human, I will do what makes me feel better no matter what. If you don't know how to properly take advantage of that, that's on you.
Ah, but some of us enjoy being rude to carnists, and as humans, we do what makes us feel better no matter what.
Seriously, where do you get off? Acting all holier-than-thou and calling us "evil" while simultaneously coming from a place of pure self-interest and saying that you were only doing it to "look like a good person." Pick a lane. Either you're a heartless, amoral sociopath, or you're trying to claim the moral high ground, you can't do both at once.
I'd rather not have people in it purely for the image. If anything, that's far more damaging than anything I or any other vegan on here is doing. A rude true believer is a hell of a lot more respectable than someone who's only in it to show off and congratulate themselves.
But go ahead, scratched liberal, go torture and kill animals because a person was rude to you on the internet. Some of us have a conception of right and wrong that goes beyond putting on a front, and if you don't, then you were only ever pretending to care anyway. That is, assuming anything you said is true and you're not just a concern-trolling carnist who's never had anything to do with veganism in the first place.
Listen to this undeniable fact: You are not a good person for being a vegan.
No one is evil or sociopathic or bad for eating animals either. We are doing what nature made us for.
You in the other hand, are causing more harm to those animals, by not manipulating dumb people to become vegan even if it's for image. You will never win, you will never be morally superior to anybody, because you yourself are causing so much pain to them by saying shit like "I’d rather not have people in it purely for the image". If you were smart, which vegans rarely are, you'd understand that those people doing it purely for the image are still saving animals and convincing others of joining them, because humans are that gullible and simple-minded, hivemind and all that.
And I am not a liberal, I am a humanist. Your attitude, comments and stances are helping no one but the elite class. Make us fight sideways, never up. Distract us with meaningless shit right now like saving animals, while people are starving to death and more concerned with surviving. Veganism is expensive, it tastes bland and bad, and you are doing nothing to help that. You are making it worse.
Be as mean as you want to carnists. That's how you create more of them, lol. You are probably the biggest carnist of all, because you care more about stroking your ego than actually doing what's best for the ideology of saving animals. And I was not lying, I did try veganism during college, lasted like half a year, I couldn't afford the lifestyle without getting heavily sick, and I'd be yelled at by people like you anyway, so, it wasn't worth it, I did it because I do care about animals, but I decided I care about humans more, at least for now while we get our shit together and can finally have the stability, time and freedom to focus on solving this issue.
I have done more for animals that you ever have. I have worked for a startup research that is trying to decipher animals' language through the use of AI, the good kind, like finding proteins and that, not stealing art. With AI it's easier to categorize the patterns of animals' speech, and so the big ethical question is starting to rise up: What would humans do if they could understand animals? Literally, what they're saying, translated to English. You might laugh at that, but we have done crazier shit like reaching the moon, so. It's probably not that far away, the day a cow, a dog, or a chimpanzee can tell us what they think about us, which will make people think twice before eating them again.
You are the one who is evil here. Never forget that. You "care" about animals to feel morally superior. I care about them because I simply care about them and keep these topics to myself and don't bring them up at irrelevant times like these, because I know that that causes more harm to animals than not, especially when you're using them to attack one of the few content creators we have that are actively working against the elite, against Israel, against everything that is wrong with America. Good job, dude. You are making people hate veganism for nothing but a hoax about a shock collar. It's incredible.
Blah blah blah. What a bunch of drivel.
Yes, I'm evil. I'm evil because I refuse to kill or torture animals. I'm evil because I want people to act genuinely rather than based on image and self-aggrandizement. Sure, who even cares. Your moral framework is so obviously absurd and ridiculous that it can be dismissed without a second thought.
It's like you've confused the concept of morality with that of politeness. You're like the final boss of concern trolling. Utterly absurd. Laughable. Impoliteness is not immoral. Causing living beings to suffer needlessly is.
Go eat a carcass, bloodmouth.
swap out any other justice cause to hear how preposterous that sounds.
You're being downvoted, but you're not wrong.
lots of cognitive dissonance happening
But also, as a vegan, annoying vegans aren't doing anything to help. Almost no one will change because they're being yelled at. Doesn't mean what they're saying is factually or morally wrong, it's just not effective at accomplishing the stated goal of animal liberation.