In regards to eating meat

[Monica]

You left out

. Plants don't have feelings, so it's okay to eat them alive.

Right. Maybe they do; maybe they don't. But we know animals do.

So, you think I am committing an abomination but I am not abominable?

I'm saying that the meat industry is an abomination. I'm not going to assess any person's involvement in it.

How is this not a contradiction?

Because each of us is defined by more than a single choice.

And the same logic applies to eating vegetation.

I disagree, for a multitude of reasons already discussed.

The dissociation is either a flaw or an asset. It can't be both.

How can refusing to feel compassion, when given the opportunity to do so, ever be an asset?