In regards to eating meat

[Diana]

You equate compassion to activism. This makes me laugh. Activism is telling people what they shouldn't do.

It might be, in some cases. Activism can have different motivations.

For example, trying to make information available, which is what is being done here. No one has to read it, or agree with it.

I think efforts to be understood clearly are being mistaken for being controlling. How else do we communicate here, and for what reason?

Example:

Person A- Eating meat supports a cruel industry as explored in the attached video.

Person B- I eat meat and I think it's just fine to do so.

Person A- Oh, okay. Everything is beautiful.

This sort of exchange gets nowhere. In a discussion, there must necessarily be conflicting, unaligned, or varying viewpoints to even have a reason to exist.

As we've explained, in our case, our activism is motivated by compassion, not control as several meat-eaters keep insisting. (Which I find a bit offensive, by the way. I don't like being told what my motivation is. Only I know that. That's why I don't tell others what their motivation is.)

Thank you. Well said.