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Quote by: Zinkovich  ... in your world of only vegetables, I would literally die. I am allergic to the cellulose in fruits and vegetables to the point of going into anaphylactic shock if I eat too much(a condition more common then one might think) and painless rashes if I eat the average amount for a balanced omnivorous diet(not that big of a deal).
So, unfortunately, biology compels me to live off of meat and the sufferring of others- what do I do? Allow myself to starve?
I realise the rationality of what you are saying, but listening to you would be a death sentence for me unless I eat only half the average amount of total food I do now.
Tell me strong, is it selfish of me to continue living, when what I need to survive will be consumed anyways? |
No decision should entail that we forfeit our life.
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| If I had your choice, I'd take it in a heartbeat- but I don't, so what do you suggest those of us who are allergic to cellulose do?
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Unfortunately, I would say such persons must continue eating meat. I would then only hope one such as yourself takes the inconvenient trouble of searching out and finding markets whose animals have been raised and slaughtered in as painless way as possible. Do you do that? Can you at least make a commitment to research the markets in your area on that point?
I would suggest that your condition is a rare one. In the future perhaps gene therapy will be able to remedy that.
What I really like about your answer, which I underlined, is your acceptance of the rationale. Therefore, you do have a responsibility to hold vegetarianism out as the choice we should choose if possible -- despite risking being called a hypocrite. You would have to be strong enough to say that the hypocracy of a person putting forth an idea or solution is irrelevant to the message`s rightfullness or wrongfullness. The message stands on its own, seperate from the messenger.
Since you said you would become a vegetarian in a heartbeat if you could, accepting it would aid in achieving peace, you are under obligation to put that forth as one of your beliefs in remedying the situation in your OP -- without worry of having to explain your personal actions on the matter. Though, I do understand that could lead one with an uncomfortable feeling of inner contradiction.