The vegan advantage

It’s probable that our most productive days in-public are yet to come. In the meantime our making value judgements about others is like setting light to a whole box of firecrackers at once. We get one big bang and then nothing. Judging the values of others is a waste of time. Why bother? What’s the use of all this moral judgement and nagging anyway? Why judge someone’s dinner? Why criticise their shopping? … unless we’re sure why we are wanting to criticise. Mixed motives are in the very least confusing. Could it be that some of us have another agenda alongside our more noble agenda? Could it not be beyond-the-bounds-of-possibility that we like attacking? Don’t we all like a bit of battle? (You can see why omnivores get nervous when we’re around!). But this ‘judging’ of ours, it’s not so much wrong as a waste of good energy and, for vegans addicted to judging, it’s a bit of classic trap, where we lose our best advantage.