Investigating the reasons

Vegan’s have rules concerning animals and eating habits but many don’t fully apply it to their relations with each other. We still don’t observe the rule of comprehensive non-violence - some vegans are not forgiving of those who hurt animals … but that of course includes almost the whole of the human race. Moral judgement-making is a slippery slope because it means we have to be disapproving of almost everybody - because every person is heavily involved in animal crimes simply by eating animal product. And because they spend their money on it they lend financial support to the people who directly attack animals. So the question is, are we as vegans capable of broadening our harmlessness to living and thinking without aggression and include non-judgementalism in our vegan principles? If vegans do make value judgements about certain human behaviour it often involves personal dislike, along the lines of “if you are not with us, you’re against us” or “non-vegans are our enemies”, etc. If we, as vegans, are trying to set the standard of non-violence, we have to be that much more generous with our judgements, not by acting as Polly Annas but by looking for the best in people, and giving them the benefit of the doubt, without okaying what they actually do. I don’t want to give the impression that we should condone lower standards of behaviour but we must separate the deed from the person. We are teachers not preachers. Vegans should investigate what makes people tick. We need to keep asking the same question - why aren’t they concerned about ‘the animal problem’ and why aren’t people impatient to become vegan? We need to put our fellow humans under the magnifying glass, to see why they don't protest the routine murdering of animals, and in fact why they enthusiastically support it.