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I’m a vegan. To those that know me, this comes as no surprise. Some of my friends have argued with me about the relative merits of veganism and alternative diets/life styles, and have on occasion found me defending my position with a fervour that borders on preaching¹.

In all these discussions, I’ve found that reasonable arguments, such as discussions about the health benefits or environmental effects of different diets have little or no impact in getting people to accept² my position. When all is said and done, people’s positions are mostly based on their personal beliefs, and far less on facts – my own included.

My belief in this matter, however, is easily misunderstood or discounted. So here’s an attempt at explaining it.

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1. Something which, incidentally, increases proportionally to the amount people defend their opposing life choices to me [↩]
2. Not adopt: it’s up to them to adopt whichever point of view they want, but I’d like everyone to accept that I won’t eat carcasses [↩]