Tuesday, July 11, 2017

The Affection Approach


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If an omnivore is willing to accept the idea of animals having rights it implies they’re no longer willing to accept the old idea that they can be exploited for human use. Coming to that conclusion is the biggest or one of the biggest decisions one could make in life.

When talking Animal Rights, bearing in mind the significance of every detail we try to pass across, that it might resonate or do the very opposite and get people’s backs up unnecessarily. You never know how close they are to accepting our arguments. So, it’s better to be safe than sorry. Affection is a good safety measure.

Without being patronising, without being hyper-sensitive about this subject, we still have to be careful how we deliver it. It mustn’t be over-packaged and we have to show respect for the intelligence of the listener. Then we can expect some respect back. If vegans don’t respect omnivores, as people, there’s no way they will listen to us; figuratively speaking, we’ll never get our toe in the door. Emotionally, they have to be on-side if we want our ‘message’ to make sense.

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