In regards to eating meat

[thefool]

Monica has been reasonable, loving, humble and kind in her responses, often ignoring personal slights and going out of her way to be considerate. I admire her courage to stand up for what she believes in and try to engage in loving discourse about a difficult issue.

There is no doubt that Monica has been really loving and very courageous. It is not about her or you Pablisimo personally. I have great respect for both of you for believing in something and standing up for it. Very few people can do that.

You guys need to chill and not take it personally when I call your opinions extreme. You can be very loving, compassionate and still have extreme views about a topic. We all can find something extreme in our lives. Someone is extreme fitness enthusiast, someone is extreme workaholic. In my book extreme just indicate out of the norm. I did not take any of the Rape, Slavery, Illegal Crime, Human Flesh eating comparison personally. I don't see myself as one of those things. So why does calling those thoughts extreme strike a nerve.

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You don't have to AGREE, but the point was to try to get you guys to understand how we see it. In the same way that I'd like to see a thoughtful presentation of an omnivore's perspective that I probably won't AGREE with, but can understand at least.

I think there have been numerous presentations of those ideas in this thread by many many people. I don't think any of the post was inconsequential. I learned a lot about no so vegetarian and completely vegetarian perspectives a lot. I think they were all very thoughtful.