drunk and vegan
the vegan LJ group i am in recently had a post about a "vegan" who got so drunk that they ate a cheese pizza (and others replied with worse eating habits while drunk).
this was followed by a bunch of comments that mostly read like "oh that sucks, but you'll get over it!"
1. i don't get how being drunk (a state someone puts themselves in) is some kind of excuse for doing things that they would normally feel to be unethical or immoral, and
2. this once again reinforces my belief that not even the majority of vegans REALLY question our relationship towards non-human animals.
i'm gonna guess that no one would have the same happy go lucky "oh well, don't do it next time" attitude if it was something other than a non-human animal that was the end product of the drunkenness. "oh date rape is ok if you're drunk, i mean it sucks, but just try better next time." right.
the difference is that most vegans still think of non-human animals as "just animals" or as food instead of feeling beings that deserve their own lives.
fucking stupid.
this was followed by a bunch of comments that mostly read like "oh that sucks, but you'll get over it!"
1. i don't get how being drunk (a state someone puts themselves in) is some kind of excuse for doing things that they would normally feel to be unethical or immoral, and
2. this once again reinforces my belief that not even the majority of vegans REALLY question our relationship towards non-human animals.
i'm gonna guess that no one would have the same happy go lucky "oh well, don't do it next time" attitude if it was something other than a non-human animal that was the end product of the drunkenness. "oh date rape is ok if you're drunk, i mean it sucks, but just try better next time." right.
the difference is that most vegans still think of non-human animals as "just animals" or as food instead of feeling beings that deserve their own lives.
fucking stupid.