Humanity

2057:

I know a very pushy vegan who is both loathed and loved. He has great compassion but also has a rough, take-no-prisoners manner. Others I know are ineffectual, who are really nice people but aren’t easy to identify with. In the end it comes down to being able to identify with another person and ‘resonate’ with what he or she says. But then we must ask ourselves if we’re truly that interested.

Vegans have got to be sincere, obviously. We need to spark something in others, impress them with the strength of our convictions and our willingness to uphold our principles despite any pressure from others.

We aren’t in a want-to-be-liked competition. It’s the subject that’s important here. Vegans just need to inspire interest and empathy with and for the poor creatures presently languishing in prison. If we aren’t being inspiring then we may be alienating people. And the last thing we want is for anyone to ‘close the book, never to be opened again’.

We’re more likely to get omnivores interested (inspired) if we can show how significant it is to today’s global problems, which haunt every single aware-ised adult on the planet. And that comes down to the significance of humanity. Everyone can relate to that, since if we have no humanity we aren’t complete humans. We’re just oiks. If we are moving towards restoring our humanity we are likely to be moving towards veganism.