2019:
Experimenting with the use of
force is experimenting with advantage-taking. Once we take out the ‘force
factor’ in what we do, what are we left with? Perhaps different habits. We free
ourselves from the grip of violence-based habits.
As humans, we’re capable of
wonderful things, not the least of which is our ability to ‘act on principle’
rather than from ‘me-first’. One such principle is non-violence. The most
attractive aspect of non-violence is a provocateur spirit. This element of
rebellion or provoking or questioning needs to use no violence other than
gently taking the piss out of omnivores for being, well, omnivores. Vegans are at
their most effective, I think, when they are being simultaneously passive and
pro-active, just as they are when they boycott.
The boycott is a withdrawal
from a world-that-need-not-be. Our pressure, as vegans, brings this world into
focus, making compassion the new fashion. Omnivores believe it’s probably too
hard to live happily being a boycotter of violence. But then that’s been
planted in the collective mind, and is part of the ‘conspiracy of
misinformation’ put out by the Animal Industries.
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