• Chloé 🥕@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    20 hours ago

    most people are chill, but there are people who act like if you aren’t a vegan or a linux user, you are an evil and morally compromised person

    which is understandable coming from vegans, imo. bad tactic and all but yeah, animal consumption is pretty messed up.

    coming from linux evangelists it’s fucking laughable

    • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
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      18 hours ago

      All the linux “evangelists” I’ve seen online just shitpost with inside jokes, or talk about the benefits of FOSS, or explain what makes google and microsoft such evil companies, or post genuinely helpful content about software alternatives or advice for making the switch.

      I’ve never seen a rabid linux user. On the other hand, some vegans get so rabid that they actually chase people away from their cause. You’re never going to get people to change a core aspect of their lives such as eating habits by insulting them and going on a tirade about why they’re evil.

      For what it’s worth, I’ve spent years as a vegetarian, and it took me years before that to gradually reduce my meat consumption to zero. I tried going vegan a few times but I would get grumpy, lethargic, and start craving things like cheese and eggs.

      There is no room in vegan spaces online to talk about the process of reducing consumption or the struggle associated with it. That’s pretty detrimental to the goal of a 100% meat-free society.

      The only way we’ll ever eliminate factory farming is through slow-incremental change. But the average vegan will never accept that. They’re a classic example of “letting perfection be the enemy of progress.”