In regards to eating meat

[Diana]

There is an over-reaching principle at play here and that is self-righteousness. On one level there appears to be a noble cause, yet on another level a stubborn unwillingness to admit when the tactics involved in promoting said cause are ineffective.

I see this as a process of illumination. Thankfully this group is willing to discuss it. I don't think we are all self-righteous. And if some of that slips in, so what? The discussion is still alive--it has life; it goes out into the sum of all; it adds to the light--including our own light in recognizing our self-righteousness.