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Originally Posted by Laz116
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The moral stance is to be a vegetarian imo. I just like to be immoral at times.
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Hmmm, sorry, I can't accept that being vegetarian is a more moral choice than not.
I think it's exactly that kind of statement that can give vegetarians a bad name. It's every individual's right to choose their own life-style, but to claim the moral high ground because of your choice (and I mean that generically, not 'you', laz) is just unacceptable.
When my wife was at University, I often used to visit her. At the time she lived with two vegetarians. These two girls would sit and watch me disapprovingly every time I made a bacon sandwich, pointedly fanning the air, tutting, that kind of thing, drove me mad.
In short, everybody has the right to choose their own life-style. They do not have a right to try to impose that on others, not do they have a right to claim that their life-style is intrinsically more 'moral'.
NB. Both the girls mentioned above took a summer job in a meat-packing factory rather than in a school's summer camp (they were training to be Primary School teachers) because it paid more money" So much for principles!