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Thin-Skinned Vegans Are Stalking Me!
Yes, it’s Day Of The Triffids all over again as marauding plants attack humans (in this case your humble blogger) with 
fallacious arguments. Here’s my response for the two brave enough to go on the record and the dozen or so shrinking violets too timid to make their stand publicly . . . and without expletives.
For weeks now, I’ve been seeing a HUGE spike in traffic hitting my post that raised the question of vegan food choices being hypocritical and I’ve been wondering what was going on?
Now I know. The vegan Triffids were launching a counter-assault.
The latest is from Fabian who also elected to take exception to me raising the question of hypocrisy, vis-a-vis the vegan lifestyle.
Apparently, the folks writing these rebuttals never heard of a thought-experiment. And geez, who knew vegans were so thin-skinned?
Here’s a link to the original post so the intrepid among you can go there and see if you can pinpoint exactly where I called anyone a hypocrite.
If you find it, let me know and I’ll publicly give you
one of my coveted No-Prize awards.
Somehow, at least in the minds of these folks, raising the question and presenting the case that supports the question is to call someone that thing. In this case, I simply asked if vegans were hypocrites because of their very selective and mentally exclusionary food choices.
Via some mental gymnastics I’m unaware of, asking if the lifestyle is hypocritical became calling them hypocrites.
How could that be? My guess is that they flunked Logic 101 in school . . . or were too anemic for the brain to process the lesson and remember it.
Was that too over-the-top? I can never tell.
And for the record, I did not call anyone a hypocrite.
But let’s take Fabian’s comments because they’re the most recent and represent the fallacy of the vegan rebut.
> You’re kinda throwing insults too by calling all vegans hypocrites, and that is not backed by much anyway.
I’m “kinda” doing no such thing, Fabian. Please show me where I called you or anyone else a hypocrite.
> You’re kinda throwing insults too by calling all vegans hypocrites, and that is not backed by much anyway
So you’re telling me that, for you, raising a legitimate question is the equivalent of an insult? Granted the tongue-in-cheek plays on words may have been over the top, but I think even you would be hard-pressed to call them “insults.”
Too Thin-Skinned To Go Outside & Play?
If raising a question is the equivalent to insulting someone (at least in Fabian’s, Alice’s, et al minds), then scientists are the most insulting lot of them all. And thus, many discoveries and everyday conveniences, such as the computer you’re using right now could never have existed if they never questioned the status quo and asked a “What if . . .” question and then sought to either prove or disprove it.
> I haven’t done much research on plant receptors, but I’d think any pain and pleasure receptors would be automatic system reactions by the plant, seeing as they only have a basic nervous system.
Well if you haven’t at least looked at the research, Fabian, then that’s a rather ill-informed rebuttal, isn’t it? I “think” a lot of things, but I feel the onus is on me to at least back those up with something substantial.
> I personally believe that to think the entire world and all beings in it were made to serve humans is a bit arrogant;
No less arrogant, I suspect, than being willing to “live without harming other life” and then doing a ethically-questionable about-face for your own convenience.
> it’s completely possible to live without harming other life (excluding plants),
Oh reaaaally. Every step you take kills millions of microbial organisms. To walk across a lawn is to leave hundreds of squished insects in your wake. Your willingness to exclude plants for the convenience of soothing your own conscience is very telling, Fabian. And does nothing to support your argument.
You did however, nicely bolster mine. Thank you for that.
The Law Of Unintended Consequences scythes the wheat from the chaff once again.
Get a load of the vegan counter-arguments, here, here and here . . .
And now, since we’re talking about Triffids . . . I’ll take a moment and give props to the B-movie objet d’art of every teenaged boy growing up in the 60’s and 70’s.
Two words, true believers . . . Janette Scott (pictured left).
Mmmmm. Okay . . . three words.
The opening song in The Rocky Horror Picture Show, sums it up for that whole generation: “And I really got hot when I saw Janette Scott fight a Triffid that spits poison and kills …”
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