Tuesday 1st December
Whenever we gate crash the party, we act like the moral police force, or at least that’s how it looks to people who consider what they do, eat or wear to be quite okay. In their mind there’s no obvious damage being done (!!) when they’re only doing what others do … and which is anyway legal to do. Vegans may want to win points for being brave and forthright but our behaviour is always being measured against our current image.
If we go around opening fridge doors and pointing out that we disapprove of a cut of meat we find inside, and if we mention this, then we’re no better than peeping toms. We are stepping over the line, or more importantly we are showing a fundamental misunderstanding of freedom-of-choice: and some of the free-choosers will understandably react badly if we start to mention the contents of their kitchen. Perhaps they’d be too polite to object to our face but later, privately, they might be getting quite upset about it. And that’s the feeling that becomes associated with the self righteousness of the vegan activist who tries to barge their way into people’s private lives.
If we go around opening fridge doors and pointing out that we disapprove of a cut of meat we find inside, and if we mention this, then we’re no better than peeping toms. We are stepping over the line, or more importantly we are showing a fundamental misunderstanding of freedom-of-choice: and some of the free-choosers will understandably react badly if we start to mention the contents of their kitchen. Perhaps they’d be too polite to object to our face but later, privately, they might be getting quite upset about it. And that’s the feeling that becomes associated with the self righteousness of the vegan activist who tries to barge their way into people’s private lives.
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