Clash of cultures

Except for vegans from birth, all of us have compromised our principles over the foods we’ve used. And we’ve justified it with some rather shallow thinking. Here we see vegans accusing omnivores of one central fault - that they couldn’t care less, but it’s likely not to be how omnivore sees themselves. To them it sounds like unfair criticism; the omnivore would say that they do care. They care about many things … “but there are limits”. Using-animals just doesn’t register on the omnivore radar.
Most omnivores know very little about how vegans think and probably don’t take us seriously anyway. To vegans “meat-eating” shows contempt for animals and therefore proves that a person doesn’t care enough about what’s happening to them. There’s no common ground here and there’s a misperception of each other, and it’s complicated. Apart from the strong cultural traditions holding habits in place there’s a new culture establishing new habits held together by vegan principle. It’s a clash of cultures and it’s not as simple as it seems. Vegans are making a terrible accusation: that “meat-eaters” ethically dumb themselves down deliberately so they can enjoy their animal foods with impunity. Omnivores accuse vegans of being the new police, intent on spoiling the very pleasure of living that can be enjoyed by ordinary people, that being the eating of readily available animal products. There’s a gulf between the two. The nature of that gulf the wideness or narrowness of it is the question we are dealing with here. Why are some humans able to be hard while others are incapable of it and will test “the limits”?