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In practice we can’t force people to think differently. And
we know that without some substantial attitude changes becoming the fashion-of-the-day
we’ll get nowhere with omnivore mentalities … however we do have some pretty water-tight arguments.
No one can
say it’s foolish or wicked to be vegan. Our insistence that plant food is good
for you and that animals have a right to a life is impressive. If they can’t
put up a counter argument it’s probably scary for them, therefore no omnivore
wants to talk about it, because the whole subject makes them feel
uncomfortable.
As vegans
we can capitalise on knowing that vegan principle is a bigger, more powerful
weapon than anything ‘they’ can come up with. Every human on the planet (but
for a handful of vegans) would be uptight about losing the argument; they’d
simply want to avoid it and hope it goes away. It all really boils down to
shame. And if that’s so, then what is the price of shame? Surely anything one
could do to ‘un-shame’ oneself would have to be seriously considered.
Being free
of shame is worth everything, and, indeed, that’s a freedom vegans have to
quite a large extent. From our point of view it’s surely understandable that
we’d want others to feel that way too.
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