The act of eating is a service.

[Monica]

But nobody ever called anybody else a zealot... the term was used "academically".

Haha, I knew you were going to say that, and was waiting for it.

That's true. So if I got offended by your use of zealot, that was my problem and my responsibility.

I might have grumbled about it, because I felt butthurt at the time, but I was in the wrong. If I truly felt 100% comfortable in my own actions, I wouldn't have cared whether, in my speculation, you thought I was a zealot or not. (I say "in my speculation" because you never actually called me personally a zealot, and in fact even said a few times that you weren't referring to me personally.)

As I recall, I got offended at the time not because I thought you were including me in that description, but because I perceived an implication that all activists=zealots.

But see, I was wrong in that perception, because you clarified later that you didn't mean that at all. Although, you did seem to have strong opinions about activism in general...but even that, shouldn't have bothered me. Why should it bother me if you approve or disapprove of my actions?

My point is that if I got butthurt by your opinions about vegetarianism, or about activism or whatever, that's my problem, NOT yours!

I may have grumbled, but I wouldn't dream of complaining to the mods, or, worse, asking them to shut down an entire discussion just because I got my panties in a bundle!

That wouldn't be fair to the others who may be interested in the discussion, now would it.