Downgrading logic

Saturday 21st August

If a person wants to indulge their fancy for fried eggs they must manipulate their logic, to marry the delicious taste in their mouth with the rightness of it in the brain. I’m sure psychopaths have a similar problem when they thirst for murder but know it makes no sense. We all accommodate “convenient” habits and twist our logic to suit our own best interests.
The eating of meat is justified with threadbare arguments so people with good brains, who’re intellectually advantaged, have to do some sloppy thinking to think this thing through, particularly if it has a bearing on “human club” membership.
In effect it comes down to compromise the soft centre in order to harden up. That’s pragmatism and what’s required of adults, but it makes us subservient to club rules, it reflects the weak, “me-centred” nature of the adult human. As decision-making adults we are expected to manipulate our acceptance levels. We lay aside logic to pay our dues and enjoy the rewards. And that was always the cause of our embarrassment as humans, that our intellectual prowess must be laid aside to allow certain primitive instincts to take over.
The predator in us is stronger than our self-image, as sophisticated advanced beings. In particular this was (and still is) the dilemma over keeping humans as slaves, and the next dilemma is over the slavery of animals. It’s a disaster-in-waiting.
If a train is thundering down the line and your mate is in the way you’d push her off the line, even at your own risk, yes? That’s the sticking point: is it judgement or is it protection to push him out of the way? “Greater love hath no man than to lay down his life for a friend”. So, vegans might not be gratuitously judgemental but simply doing their best to defend their friends from disaster.
My friend may be on top of a cliff, ready to his own life. The dilemma: should I intervene? It brings up the question of one person imposing their own values on another. Do we have a right to do that?
In terms of “imposing” our value-laden ideas on others, we drive a thin line between two extremes, both of which everyone knows only too well. And fears. We fear the loss of our free-will, we fear the loss of our life. Veganism treads on egg shells, between each. We might need to be subtle if we want to be effective. Today’s men and women and even children are so sophisticated in their thinking. We are all so aware of others coming in on our ‘act’. Surely, if I want to downgrade my logic, I have the right to do so.
As vegans, we might agree, but we’d like the chance to break through the bullshit of it too! The intelligentsia has a bit of a problem here. They pretend to be capable of logical thought and yet over this question of personal use of certain putative harmful substances they refuse to address the subject logically. If they did it would show a chink in their intellectual armour.