I agree it probably shouldn’t have been negative karma (I think that’s due to some partisan voting around being annoyed at vegans), and that there were some interesting points there and some interesting discussion. But, the fact that it prompted a bunch of rebuttals isn’t particularly good arguments that it should have got more karma – if a bad argument is popular and people need to write rebuttals, that’s not a point in it’s favor.
I think it’s legitimately not-deserving-high-upvotes because it makes a very strong claim about what people should do, based on some very flimsy core arguments.
I agree it probably shouldn’t have been negative karma (I think that’s due to some partisan voting around being annoyed at vegans), and that there were some interesting points there and some interesting discussion. But, the fact that it prompted a bunch of rebuttals isn’t particularly good arguments that it should have got more karma – if a bad argument is popular and people need to write rebuttals, that’s not a point in it’s favor.
I think it’s legitimately not-deserving-high-upvotes because it makes a very strong claim about what people should do, based on some very flimsy core arguments.