Arrogance-free

Inevitably we resent the arrogance of the majority. This leads to anger, frustration and “judgement”. We get angry because we haven’t been able to persuade them to vegan principles. We see the value of this change: they don’t. 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’.
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. If they did, they’d find out where their favourite foods come from … and no prizes for guessing what happens then! They’ll see “all this” as off-limits. So, we’re back to square one, whatever we tell people it will be like water off a duck’s back. For this we judge them – selling out for the sake of convenience and personal pleasure.
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 judges the other for their faulty reasoning on this subject of ‘animal-usage’. They hate us criticising them, sighting us as arrogant purists. We judge them for being shallow and too arrogant to admit to their ‘muddled logic’. According to each one’s perception the other side seems arrogant.