Twizelby wrote:I know it may come off as harsh, but it is really how I feel about the topic. Hypotheticals are just so tainted. I honestly never thought I would go vegan, even as a vegetarian I didn't think I would. So I have a degree of understanding of where you are coming from. when it comes down to it the hypothetical argument is really just an attempt to negate the vegan argument without providing facts.
See, then your hostility comes from ignorance and assumptions that fly in the face of my post in the first place. I made it very clear that this was, in
no way, an argument for or against
anything. There was absolutely 0 intention of
any "negation" of viewpoints. I never said that plants
are sentient, or that we one day
will discover that they are, or even that there
is any solid evidence that says they are. I only brought it up to say that it isn't entirely impossible. Basically, to keep people from thinking my hypothetical is just based on magic, or that my reasoning for the idea is on par with something like "What if the universe like.... is like just our thoughts... projected through like computers myan. like
wooooahh right....?". (myan = "man" with a stoner-hippie accent lol)
I'm not even here to be pro or anti vegan. I'm not here to say "This is why I'm not vegan, and won't be.". Personally I think it's great if you want to go vegan/vegetarian, and hold absolutely nothing against anyone for doing so. But the question has
nothing to do with the question "is veganism right?". I'm not trying to justify eating meat or anything else of the sort either. I can't think of any way I could have possibly made it any clearer that this was simply, and
only, a hypothetical situation that I had thought of, and wanted to have a discussion to get input from vegans on the potential affects of idea
if it came to be reality. I figured this would be a good place to find vegans who would be willing to have a civilized discussion about it. Seeing as this is The Vegan Atheist forum, as opposed to something like The Hippie Vegans Who Heal Medical Problems With Magic Crystals forum. Completely free of taint. If anything it's covered in anti-taint, because I asked here specifically because I figured that the people of this community are more "thoughtful", open-minded, and rational than probably many other places I could have asked. So the fact that I asked here is actually more complimentary than anything else.
