Arrogance-free

2054:

Inevitably we will always resent the arrogance of the majority, which leads us to feel anger, frustration and ‘judgement’. We get angry because we haven’t been able to persuade them to adopt vegan principles. The more we want them to change the less they want to comply.

As soon as we find something we’d like to change about people, in comes ‘judgement’, and therefore out goes all chance of agreement. “You now don’t seem to like me – why should I change to please ?”

As activists, we’re familiar with factory farming techniques. Most of us are aware of what’s going on behind the scenes with animals. On the other hand, we know omnivores aren’t aware. And if they are, they choose not to look, for if they did, they’d find out where their favourite foods come from. And no prizes for guessing what happens next! They’ll see ‘all this’ as off-limits. And so, we’re back to square one.

Whatever we tell people it will be like water off a duck’s back. And for this we judge them, because they are selling-out to convenience and personal pleasure. (So, what’s worse - what they do as animal-eaters or what I do as the value-judge?)

Arrogance is one of the heaviest judgements we can level at someone. We say it’s arrogant to evade such an important issue. But both sides see arrogance in the other. Each of us judges the other for their faulty reasoning about this subject of ‘animal-usage’. They hate us criticising them, sighting us as arrogant purists. We judge them for being shallow and arrogant hedonists. According to each one’s perception the other side seems arrogant and therefore fatally flawed.