Sunday, September 10, 2017

Selective Facts and Moral Superiority








I'm sorry, but militant, cultist, morally superior, virtue signalling Vegans really piss me the hell off.

You've got people suffering and dying, losing their homes, even losing their LIVES, in these hurricanes and wildfires and crazy shit that's going on. And all they can think to do is sit around barfing up their religious fanaticism about "SEE, IF YOU JERKS DIDN'T EAT MEAT, THIS WOULDN'T BE HAPPENING!".

Make no mistake, we DO need to change the way we do pretty much EVERYTHING in our society (and EVERY society), not 20 years from now but TODAY. And that includes farming practices. But let's also get something straight here:

1. Choosing not to eat meat or use animal products does NOT make you superior to anyone.

2. People who DO eat meat or choose to use animal products, including dairy, are NOT bad people, and you have ZERO right to bully or shame them for THEIR lifestyle choice, when you expect YOURS to be respected.

3. The meat industry, particular beef, IS destructive and harmful to the environment, but not NEARLY to the level that fanatical vegans try to make it out to be. That doesn't mean it doesn't NEED to change. It absolutely has to, just like everything else we do wrong that was never sustainable in the first place. But even if you convinced everyone to stop eating BEEF, let alone ALL meat and animal products TOMORROW, it would not, repeat NOT, "Save the World". It would be a drop in the bucket compared to every OTHER source of pollution and garbage/waste, and oil spills, and gas leaks, and second-hand smoke, and carbon emissions, etc. etc. etc. Just because YOU don't consume animal products, does not mean that you are NOT still every bit as destructive and as much to blame for our modern issues in many OTHER ways, as everyone else is. If we're really going to give future generations a better tomorrow, or ANY tomorrow, we have to change SO much more than farming and dietary practices. And making the world Vegan, is NOT going to have nearly as much impact as you dream that it would. In fact, it would push people to over-produce and over-consume even MORE non-meat products, which in turn would have their OWN more destructive effects. It helps to actually think something through to conclusion, instead of just having what you think is a nice idea, and then beating people over the head with it at the top of your lungs (or fingers).

4. If you actually knew anything about human anatomy and biology, let alone anthropology and history, you'd know that human beings are NOT "meant" to be vegetarian or vegan. If someone CHOOSES that lifestyle, great for them, I 100% support them in that. But do NOT go around trying to tell people, let alone ME, that that is "How humans are supposed to be". Because that's flat out bullshit, on an evolutionary scale. If we were meant to be herbivores, our bodies wouldn't literally digest protein matter FAR easier than plant matter. Our teeth wouldn't be sharp and jagged, even our molars. They would be flat and dull, like a herbivores. There is nothing WRONG with choosing to not eat meat. If that is your choice, I commend you. But do NOT do what every other asshole on the planet does, and go around trying to selectively hold up cherry-picked and partially-understood "scientific facts", as validation for your virtue signaling and moral superiority.

5. If you are the type of person who uses tragedies such as these, as an opportunity to push your own agenda, you are no better, no more intelligent, no more morally superior, no less ignorant, no less petty, and no less shallow than the assholes like Cameron Kirk and the Westboro Baptist Church, who blame natural disasters like this on "The Wrath of God", because of something others do THEY don't approve of. In either case, you're a heartless asshole, and part of the problem. You are NOT one of the good guys. 

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