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Sometimes I feel like I'm being mean when I pick on my nonvegan friends. (self.vegan)
submitted 1 year ago by bonkerfield to c/vegan
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But then I remember I didn't take their children away, hook them up to a machine to extract food from them, or kill them. And that makes me feel like making fun of carnists is not so bad.

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[–] Goldfishlaser 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Why don't I gain anything by it?

How is it not helping to remind them where the ice cream came from, since they obviously forgot if they're complaining about it to a vegan.

And what makes you assume moral superiority? You said yourself that you understand how frustrating it is for us to hear about animals being exploited. That's where the joke comes from. People unthinkingly doing wrong and expecting us to say nothing.