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Originally Posted by gpigluver14  Once again, I do not believe I was rude to anyone throughout the whole thread and the experience I had. I do not regret making the first post, and I do not understand how it is inappropriate. The title, yes. And we have gone through this before through the posts above and my last post, how I have said that the word all should have been most. I feel like I'm constantly repeating this. |
Maybe the reason you have to keep repeating yourself, is because you were wrong, and you caused offence. Don't like it? Be more considerate in future.
And, yes, I still find the word "most" offensive.
In my own life experience (that actually spans
beyond school dining tables) there are far more rude vegetarians than there are rude omnivores.
But I don't go whining about how all or even most vegetarians are all the same, because I realise that would be immature and judgmental.
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Originally Posted by gpigluver14 You don't need to be a doctor to state that you can be a vegetarian and still have medical issues. Look at the facts. There are other ways of getting protein besides animal products. It seems like you are being the close-minded one here. You seem unwilling to accept that you could be a vegetarian if you wanted to. |
If you had actually taken the time to properly
read my post before climbing upon the shaky foundations of your soapbox, you would have noticed that I was not talking only about protein, but mostly about iron and other vitamins, but iron first and foremost.
Liver especially contains a very high amount of iron. I also have to eat a lot of green vegetables, but consuming enough green vegetables to compensate for my lack of iron will inevitably lead to digestion problems.
However, I don't want to go veggie, but that doesn't mean that there aren't other people out there who have the same health problems I do, that would go veggie if they could.
But hey,
most omnivores are all the same, and all eat processed meat from supermarkets, right?
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Originally Posted by gpigluver14 This is a pro-vegetarian forum and this is the vegetarian section of the forum. If you are going to be argumentative and against veg*nism, then maybe you should not be on the site at all?? |
I have not, in any way, shape or form, been argumantative against vegetarianism or veganism as either a lifestyle or a philosophy.
Read back over my posts
carefully (because you really seem to have a problem with that) and you will notice this.
The only thing I have been "argumentative" against is closed-minded, self-important generalisations.
And whether the subject material was vegetarianism, religious inclination or anything else, I would still take issue with it.
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Originally Posted by gpigluver14 By the way, I'm sure you could share your morals in a much more polite manner then this:
You can be proud, but please do not boast about something like this, when you know all too well that there are many veg*n members of this forum. |
Yes, I was
intentionally insensitive, for the purpose of making a point, but impolite? No.
Impolite would be to generalise "most" people who live by a certain philosophy, based simply upon one person's negative reaction.