I have the impression (reading the comments and seeing the number of votes/the score of the post) that the LW readers are roughly divided 50⁄50 on how they feel about this post. In my case, I am one of those feeling very strongly against it. My reasons are:
This post reads more like a political pamphlet than a typical post from LW. For instance, “People, including non-human people” seems to me a Shibboleth.
I don’t find any interesting insights here, simply an anecdote of someone (in my view) overreacting to a trivial experience that could have been avoided.
More at the object level: I am not vegan myself, not planning to become one, but I can see that many of the reasons why some people decide to do it are good reasons. After talking to many vegans, I realized that it is a good thing at least reduce the intake of meat. However, this behaviour displayed in this post creates in me (and I am probably not the only one) a very strong aversion to vegans.
I have the impression (reading the comments and seeing the number of votes/the score of the post) that the LW readers are roughly divided 50⁄50 on how they feel about this post. In my case, I am one of those feeling very strongly against it. My reasons are:
This post reads more like a political pamphlet than a typical post from LW. For instance, “People, including non-human people” seems to me a Shibboleth.
I don’t find any interesting insights here, simply an anecdote of someone (in my view) overreacting to a trivial experience that could have been avoided.
More at the object level: I am not vegan myself, not planning to become one, but I can see that many of the reasons why some people decide to do it are good reasons. After talking to many vegans, I realized that it is a good thing at least reduce the intake of meat. However, this behaviour displayed in this post creates in me (and I am probably not the only one) a very strong aversion to vegans.