What’s happened to discussing things?

Just by way of our diet and clothing choices we engage in violence – omnivores violate animals at almost every meal they eat. The softie in them must question why they are helping to kill so many animals?
That question must hang in the air … because we’re not in the pulpit but down on the ground, face to face, trying to make sense of things, knowing that ‘the truth’ is sometimes too raw. If we are trying to initiate discussion of animal-use we need to be able to bring up certain matters without blowing the fuse (short circuiting a person’s defence shield). Imagine if we went around speaking frankly (on how we feel about animal-eating), we’d lose all our friends. We’d put everyone off especially if we have a devil-may-care attitude to what we’re saying. We probably like to be daring with our words, as if we’re taking on the entire world, but we have a long way to go before making any serious challenge. So, in the spirit of cutting our coat according to our cloth, if we do make accusations and get caught out, we have to know we can recover without losing the whole argument.
Now to a tricky moment - the urge to cut in. If we don’t cut in, cut across what someone is saying it may look as though we haven’t got a solid answer to what they’ve just said. If we don’t interrupt, it looks as though we are taking too much time to answer because we aren’t sure how to answer. But interrupting causes anger and the discussion goes pear-shaped. From here on in it’s all emotion, ego and being ‘right’.
Stirring the emotional dragon with friends and family is bad enough but if we try to railroad reporters we’ll bring down the wrath of the press on ourselves. Then we’ll see how quickly things can turn against us. The media can be vicious, damning us if it suits the story they’re after.
If we must value-judge omnivores let’s do it in-house, during a whinge session with fellow vegans; we can say what we like in private but in public we have to be more staged, and whatever we do say said with some technique.