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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kahuna Burger" data-source="post: 2609816" data-attributes="member: 8439">Just to clarify, I am not currently a vegitarian, and I never made it all the way to being one. I just felt that your example was a poor one, and (while it seems you didn't mean it that way) looked like a projection of hypocrisy on any vegitarian who doesn't strain his tea for gnats.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />  Which I have seen asserted and it bugs me.Your second example I can get behind much more. If you are a vegitarian based on empathy for animals, that empathy should inform (but not control) other choices you make with regard to animals. You can also have empathy for animals without being a vegitarian, as I feel I do, and it sounds like you do. And of course you could be a vegitarian for non empathy related reasons. Just like there's a whole range of feelings on animal testing, its not a matter of "yum veal" vs st francis of assisi and anyone in between is a hypocrit.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> About lecturing... While I may have a skewed perspective, I've encounter more lecturing, self righteous meat eaters (by an order of magnitude) than the stereotypical evangelical vegitarian. They're out there and I'm sure they would annoy me, but I consider them an anomoly amoung veg*s, not the default.P.S. To add another layer of nuance, I'm quite comfortable taking sides between animals. I hate possums because they kill cats. Are cats "really" any better than possums? no of course not, but I like cats better and I'm taking sides. (of course people who let their cats out where they are at risk from the possums bug me too....  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> )</blockquote>

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