I recently found my way into a few blog conversations with some vegans, trying to understand their positions on animal rights, hunting, eating meat (or any animal product) and so forth.
The problem with my plan became apparent almost immediately. Vegans view their lifestyle choice as a moral issue. Those of us who disagree are therefore immoral. And they can't discuss the issue without arrogance, contempt and insults. My (im)morality apparently justifies the Holocaust, for example.
So I find I'm no longer interested in trying to understand them. I'll just go back to happily eating my beef/pork/fish/chicken/eggs/milk and wearing leather and otherwise exploiting animals.
Oh, and hunting. Definitely hunting. Even though that makes me a pathological, narcissistic misogynist, apparently.
Update: Here's a relevant quote which, I think, illustrates the abolitionist vegan attitude:
There is no characteristic that all and only humans have which separates us from all other species, except one, species membership.
