Why I am not a vegan

[Monica]

The questions I am being asked are a twisted convolution of my thoughts and I will not be answering so as to not have my intentions further sullied by ridiculous thinking.

It is your choice whether to participate or not, but I do find this rather 'convenient.' It is a commonly employed tactic to insult the other person rather than engage in honest, respectful discourse. I asked you some honest questions, in an effort to understand your points. Such as: Inviting you to consider the effect of killing the animal, rather than only eating the animal. That is NOT ridiculous! That is an intelligent and thoughtful question, in response to your elaborate explanation of how you 'transmute' animal suffering by eating their flesh ritualistically. To focus only on the eating part is to miss most of the equation here. It isn't only about eating. It's about killing. That meat on your plate was a sentient being's body that had to be killed before you could eat it. That cannot be ignored. Yet you seek to ignore it by conveniently saying my thinking is 'ridiculous.'

If you don't want to answer it, that's fine. But saying my thinking is 'ridiculous' and 'sullying your intentions' is quite insulting and only illustrates my point that those who attempt to justify cruelty to animals tend to have cognitive dissonance. It is easier to just lash out at vegans, rather than actually considering another perspective.

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Although, I will say the significance of any killing is a matter of what the circumstances are, although it is, by nature, destructive. Everything must die on this plane, it is only a matter of the way in which one goes that will change the significance of death.

All humans must eventually die too. But we don't go around saying that it's ok to kill humans just because they're going to die anyway.

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I eat and enjoy meat.
There are arguments that say I should stop doing this.
I decide to continue.

This is the discussion.
In a hat.

Try and stop me.

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