Have you ever been convinced by vegan slaughterhouse footage, propaganda, or being told you are a murderer for eating that quarter pounder
Have you ever been convinced to become a meat eater or omnivore when people say you're secretly doing this because you're sadisticly enjoying it?
I'd make more comparisons, but I can't compare dehumanising language to vegetarianism/ veganism.
I must say I never felt the urge to attack vegans or vegetarians, not even the PETA type that made a kind of business model out of shocking people.
The difference, I believe is guilt. I feel no guilt for eating meat. This is different from those that perform or defend abortion. They've given abortion, or had one, or know advised someone to take one. This is a completely different issue.
Even considering for the slightest moment that it might be wrong, invites one of the most difficult penitentiary experiences. Because if it's wrong, it's very very wrong.
This is why people that defend the value of life are seen as such threats. It will literally put their world upside down.
And we can't really escape human morality even if we try. People that decide to start acting like sociopaths, in work for example, always end up paying the price inside themselves. The guilt may be latent, but it's there.
In defending life, these people are the greatest threat to opening up that bag of guilt. For some it may be relatively minor, it may have been one or two online comments, but for some they may have to reconcile a good part of their life with a new viewpoint that is more in line with the natural order.
I don't think it is escapable, but I do think one can try to escape it by being in denial about it.
See what the response was to seeing what life they thought acceptable to ending? No more comments about it being parasites. The comments about it being "clumps of cells" leave a bad aftertaste.
When faced with reality, the dehumanising language ceases to work.
As comparison to vegan vs. omnivore, vegans have a fair point against the majority of meat eaters as the mass of meat is produced in very dire circumstances for the animals.
Do meateaters use a tiny percentage of quality of life farming to defend the industrial scale hellish conditions farming? They are probably full of it.
Do abortion defenders use a tiny percentage of abortion cases to defend abortion for any reason and in any case and even practice denial toward attempts to lengthen abortion up to any term up to birth?
You can literally read this thread and see that denial in action where someone claimed nobody in the world would have that agenda, then someone posting links to a bill that would have legalized it and then a moving of goalposts to "yeah but a good doctor would never do that".
The denial is a necessity and omnivores/meateaters that are in denial about the life of the animal of the meat that they buy in an average supermarket is just as deserving to be shattered. That illusion causes harm, and makes people part of harm that they don't even want to inflict.
The embryo won't know what's happening.
People that are killed in their sleep don't know what's happening either.
Elders with alzheimers that are killed might not know what is happening either.
There is no act that becomes moral due to lack of knowledge by the victim. Stealing and embezzling come to mind.
