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When we do get talking with
non-vegans we, and not usually they, know how fundamental this subject is. They,
on the other hand, because they don’t know or don’t want to know, try to treat
it frivolously. Ours is a serious subject, and not one of those nice dinner
table conversation pieces where we can just ‘agree to disagree’.
And yet, on one level it
might need to be just that, where anyone
who has something to say can say it but they also have the right to ‘leave it
at that’ if they want to – there’s no law that says you have to come to a
conclusion where there’s agreement between both sides. We are all
volunteers-in-the-conversation. We, as animal advocates and vegans, will bring
the subject up at the drop of a hat. It isn’t likely an omnivore would be
wanting to bring it up at all.
I suspect that in the heat of
the moment we can easily forget the feelings of the other person, or believe that
their feelings don’t matter, and then conversation becomes heated. And although
some important points are pressed home, afterwards there are feelings left over
from the conversation which can sour any consideration of them there might have
been. The mind will come down on the side of personal liking or disliking. And
only after that is established will the arguments find the appropriate
justification to suit the personal feeling for the person delivering the
arguments in favour of animal rights.
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