Do Vegetarians and Vegans Think They Are Better Than Everyone Else?

I'll just leave it at that.

 

No

Did you read the link I posted?

 

BTW Ragu, Devil is better than you, because he's bred:

Why don't you marry your Euro girlfriend, buy a house in the suburbs (preferably one in an HOA), buy a car, bang out a kid our two, and eat a fucking cheeseburger.

 

But we're not talking about them.

You're arguing, then, that vegans essentially shouldn't be vegans.

That's a different argument than, "Principled vegans should serve fish at weddings to make their guests happy."

 

I still don't get it.

If I serve a hearty, and filling -- but meatless -- pasts dish, I've somehow dishonored my guests?

 

If Bodie goes to a party at Devil's house, is Devil obligated to have a couple of joints rolled as a courtesy?

Miss Manners never covers topics like this?

 

Is vegan a God they pray to? Do they have to destroy a plate if meat touched it? If people choose to have a vegetarian alternative at a wedding, why can't that gesture be reciprocated? but we just get "Our food tastes so good. Why don't you like it? Is meat the only thing you eat?"

If you expect people to do something for you, but you are not willing to do something for them, many people will think a certain way about you.

 

Do you put your coffee away if a Mormon comes over?

 

Because, for some of them, they think that meat is murder. Their decision not to eat meat is a moral choice. Enabling it is, for them, just one step down or perhaps even equal to consuming meat themselves.

Meat eaters will serve a vegetarian dish at a meat wedding because their decision to not eat a vegetarian meal is not a moral one. They have no moral issue with vegetarian meals.

The situations are not the same.

 

To me, when people do that it could be taken as "those people think they are better than me because they do not eat meat."

That is the purpose of the thread. It was started for people's opinions, but of course, Ragu, Sonner and YF went into attack mode.

 

That would be the wrong way to take it. It is not supported by evidence.

One defensible way to take it would be:

Those people believe they have made the correct moral choice in this regard, as compared to the choice I have made. They do not necessarily believe they are better or even more moral people than I am. They simply believe that, where this particular matter is concerned, they have made the morally correct choice.

Another defensible way to take it, and probably the most accurate one, would be:

The decision those people have made not to serve meat at this wedding has nothing to do with me. They live their life by a rigid code - that eating animals is morally indefensible. Thus, they cannot ethically enable the practice.