Go to jail, go directly ...

Vegans have ample justification to judge those who are not vegan ... and that’s the very reason why should be seen even hinting a judgement upon another person ... unless friendly. Our warning should be to ourselves - “don’t judge unless you want to be judged yourself”. Restraint here signifies that we aren’t interested in winning but in talking. No pistols-at-dawn. That never solves anything.
Say we go to the movies and see this great inspiring film, during which we can feel our whole outlook changing. The film ends and everyone goes home. And then we forget about the film, it was just the emotion of the moment. We all revert to business-as-usual. Deep change is not made lightly.
It’s hard to shift normal behaviour especially when dealing with those who have a behaviour shared by the ‘vast majority. If you meet a judgemental vegan you’ll probably be wanting them to go away. We’ll be avoiding them in the future, the way we avoid drunks.
From our point of view, as vegans, we may not be free to influence omnivores but we are free to rattle our own cage doors. We can, in a way, leave our own prison cells, we can come and go as we please and return back to the fray when we wish. We’re freer than the omnivore in that way, if only because we have a reason to be coming and going, to go out and search for new breakthroughs from the ‘nonsense reality’ in which most people are trapped’, err, all omnivores are trapped. Are vegans perhaps the Escape Committee?
Our prison-world is experienced amongst other species; all of us, animals and humans, are enslaved. And we may shudder at the controls placed on us but that’s nothing compared to much worse inflicted on sentient non-human ‘food’ animals.