I asked a genuine question and had replies that ignored the question I asked and insulted me and said my question was stupid. My reply telling them to stop being rude and answer the question if they want to comment was removed by the mods.
I asked a genuine question and had replies that ignored the question I asked and insulted me and said my question was stupid. My reply telling them to stop being rude and answer the question if they want to comment was removed by the mods.
I mean, the problem isn’t that OP’s question was stupid. The problem is that it is rude to question people’s religious practices.
Veganism is a religion now?
people who claim veganism is a religion do so in blind belief to dismiss it as irrational to avoid going over the moral and factual arguments it presents, most vegans became one due to evidence be that a documentary showing the meat/dairy industry cruelties. if standing against violence makes someone seem religious, maybe we need a lot more of it
click for more if you are curious
for anyone curious to get to know a bit more if you are reading this with open mind, Dominion is a good watch (its embedded below if the Lemmy frontend you are using supports mp4):
TW: animal exploitation and cruelty exposed
Always was
It’s often framed as a system of moral philosophies and the way the impact our behavior and interactions with the world and society. So yes, in many ways, veganism is a religion, or at the very least religion adjacent. Religions aren’t limited to belief in a magical sky daddy.
To be clear, it is clearly bigotry to use “religion” as a label in an effort to be dismissive of anyone’s personal moral belief system or philosophy.
Several of the answers were interesting because they seemed to focus on social perceptions and how others would see them. I got very much “convert the heathens” vibes off some of them - but it’s probably a “broad church” within that population who associate with the term. Need some schisms and sub-sects to form, like orthodox, reformist, catholic , protestant to get terminology that represents the diversity of beliefs. I’m not sure internet will allow that once a term has meme value.
Either way it was quite interesting to me because i’m generally against animal killing and cruelty and I don’t like animal testing, even for medical research, which some people think is quite extreme. But i really don’t give a fuck what other people think; about as much as i expect them to give a shit about me.
There’s always tradeoffs, and hide glue has some extremely good characteristics so i’d use that gladly. But i must accept that if someone needs some glue (or just a snack) and they find my corpse - have at it.