In regards to eating meat

[Ankh]

THAT would also solve your polarity question, in my fallible opinion.

My polarity question??

WOW. I am stunned.

So now you are questioning my polarity??

You have not only made this personal, but now presume to analyze my polarity???

The questions that I have now is: how shall we play along with each other in this thread? As I said, this is probably a most disharmonious thread in this forum. Why do you think it is so? What does it depend on? What is the reason for that? And how shall we solve it?

Well, for starters, how about having an objective discussion about the topic, without making it personal? How about not analyzing someone's polarity, as if you had the right to do that, or even could do that?

I misread the below paragraph:

We wonder whether we've done 'enough' for them, whether we could have spoken up more, and we chastise ourselves for letting what others think of us be more important than those we are called to help. We sometimes lie awake at night, hearing their cries, while struggling with our own guilt - the guilt of not having done enough...the guilt of of selfishly caring more about our popularity with other humans then we do about the suffering of our other-selves...the guilt of selfishly keeping our mouths shut, rather than being willing to endure ridicule. We're no saints. We often selfishly put ourselves first; we avoid speaking up not always because of love and consideration of our meat-eating friends, but sometimes because we want to avoid the backlash of animosity that will be directed at us if we speak up. I am sorry for the many times I have been selfish, and faltered in those convictions I claim to have. It's shameful to admit how many times I have thought of myself, and wished only to avoid the very conflict so prevalent on this thread. In real life, it's much harder.

I just saw it. Instead of reading "selfishly caring more about our popularity with other humans", I read: "selfishly caring more about our polarity with other humans". So I thought that it was a question that you raised *yourself*, and was the reason to why I said: "that it would be something that would solve this question for you, *in my fallible opinion*".

*It is not something I am interested in analyzing or discussing at all.*

EDIT: I will respond to the rest of your post later.