World goes affectionate

Do you think a vegan world is unlikely? Maybe it is, unless you use magic, to enchant the vast collective mind … the magic being affection.
If vegans do (what they do) with affection, if they show it in their tone of voice, words and body language, they can be as confronting as they want to be and magically it won’t feel like confrontation, due to the absence of threat or personal judgement. No problem about using strong words … if they’re gently put.
Our struggles with the ‘demon-omnivore’ needn’t exist. If we want to be instructive, then be pleasant about it. Polite, but not strictly polite, just warm and firm like a well fitted glove. We aren’t here to lecture but to help; not to say “me right: you wrong” or “look at this cruelty or that horror”, it’s to make the subject less frightening and more approachable. No one likes HAVING to admit what they eat (with its connection to animal treatment); free-willed adults don’t take kindly to being harangued and have ways of ganging up on aggressive advocates. But that doesn’t mean they don’t want to know. If they want our help, our hands are supposed to be warm to hold. Ours is a privileged position. We don’t need weaponry but we do need to offer a guiding hand.
Vegans say be affectionate towards animals, help them don’t eat them – it’s an appealing message. It will resonate with people, if they feel free to resonate; they don’t want to feel like a rat in a corner, morally compelled to comply with instructions issues by the Central Vegan Committee. We must be the sort of people they can’t identify with, not be easily disliked.
Vegans, who aim to protect animals, should also aim to protect omnivores. However we see them they are to us, in truth, children. If that sounds insulting it’s not meant to be, but in terms of their level of unawareness along with their suicidal diets, omnivores need protecting.
If they see us strongly liking them (even though they eat ‘our friends’) they’re more likely to hear us out. If they seem a bit twitchy I’d suggest it’s the awful reputation vegans have built for themselves, for savaging their opponents. It’s also because animal advocates have sometimes not even been vegan themselves, and how ridiculous is that! Our job is to show them we aren’t like that; that we are completely committed vegan boycotters and that we are fair-minded and imaginative about the difficulties some omnivores are experiencing taking in our message.
It’s only natural that they’ll react negatively to us if we’re pontificating or being accusing, or if we’re sounding righteous or threatening or shrill. Without affection vegans are just value judging. If we’re affectionate we’re offering a plate of sandwiches – “Try a vegan approach, if only because it’s going to happen anyway”.
Affection eases us into a vegan view of our world, if anything (once the penny drops) a little too rapidly. From our point of view, we hard-done-by vegan advocates and for earlier vegans, we’ve pushed the idea up hill, now it’s time to let it run down hill. Aggro veggoes always look a bit desperate.