This is a common problem. A lot of non vegans pretend vegans believe stupid things as a way to dismiss veganism as irrational. I think they call it the straw man or something.
Most animals are people in the ways that matter. They have personalities and a subjective experience of the world.
Doing calculus, or putting on clothes is not what makes someone a someone. Being a unique individual with their own thoughts is what makes someone a someone.
cetaceans are very obviously “people” and sapient to a degree indistinguishable from humans, and this is basically scientific consensus at this point.
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While cetaceans show advanced cognition like self-recognition in some species and complex sociality, claims they are “people” sapient indistinguishably from humans are not scientific consensus and remain contested.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cetacean_…
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spiegel.de/international/…
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As far as animal rights activists go vegans are by far the most polite.
Meat eaters will threaten to kill you if you cause an animal they find cute mild distress.
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Dog and cat people are the same. Horse people too.
Vegans are comparatively docile.
And take a moment to understand the vegans perspective. You are defending the rape and murder of beings we care about. Often times you laugh at animal suffering. Vegans mostly just take it.
Non vegan moral reasoning in a nutshell
Do you think toga and the thousands of people who liked this genuinely believe vegans think whites are superior and minorities and animals belong in some inferior category?
I don’t have a good theory of mind of these people. I have to assume they know they are lying about vegans
People don’t like to be reminded that they share the same bigotry they despise in others.
It’s offensive to compare humans and animals because?
Animals are less intelligent
Don’t look like us
Don’t share our genes
Don’t share our language
These are all bigoted reasons.
I feel so fortunate to have access to plant based foods and don’t have to eat dead bodies like this.
I will never understand why someone would choose to partake in this barbarity when they don’t have to.
Non vegans view saving animals the same way they view salvaging a TV.
As an object that can be used as entertainment or resources.
The vegan mind cannot understand this because we view animals as individuals with inherent value. The non vegan will always seem sociopathic to us.
This is probably gonna be my last post on this topic because people don’t have the cognitive capacity to follow the conversation.
But no vegan supports harming cats. The vegan position is that we should use technology to create a meat free alternative thats proven healthy.



























