Unpopular Opinion
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You know you've succeeded with a truly unpopular opinion when you get more downvotes on Unpopular Opinion while no one is complaining that it is a popular opinion.
Diets are pretty intrinsic to how people live. This is the equivalent of an edgey atheist teenager shitting on Christianity as an unpopular opinion.
Down playing your choice to kill as a diet is pretty dystopian
Down playing the destruction of ecosystems as a diet is pretty dystopian.
You eat food from farmed land too smarty.
It is an interesting picture you are painting and true, it is probably how most people would see it.
However, your comparison with religion is a little bit off. Engaging in religion is (and should be) a personal choice that is just including you - i.e. it should not force or be forced by others.
But by choosing to consume animal products, you don't just choose something for yourself - you are forcing someone else into pain and ultimately death.
That is the reason why "vegans are so annoying". We don't give a crap about what YOU do - but we want to stand in for the victims that can't make themselves be heard. I hope this makes it easier to understand our motives and why we feel the moral obligation to act on them.
Have a good one!
I could lay out an argument that supporting religion means you support slavery and crusades.
I'm not going to engage your false utopia. Human brains literally developed from agriculture and cattle farming. Reality is meat consumption is a need for the majority of the planet and beyond an individual consumers' responsibility to solve.
You choose to live on each day despite knowing you will consume and pollute inherently, yet seek to criticize the choices of others?
If if this was true, this doesn't prove that it is still necessary or even beneficial today. Humans did a lot of things in the past that would be seen as strange today (you already mentioned crusades for example). It does not follow that, just because "we did it in the past" means we still need to do it today.
I don't fully agree. Please give me circumstances where there would be a NEED for this.