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I have to admit, diet restriction vegans (and not the ones that just think meat is icky and can get a doctor to sign off on it) do not fall into the general stereotype but then only one of them ever had a chance to speak to me and she would sneak chicken occasionally so I don't really consider her vegan as such. Also she was a work associate and I normally never bring up the subject in the office.
There may be reasonable vegans out there, and I have actively sought them on forums and IRL through school clubs and protests. I have never IRL raised my voice, never used a derogatory label harsher than 'leafeater' and that only once. Yet I am so ridiculously burned out by the arguments and harsh words I've endured that I'm done holding any hope out any longer.
You sound like what I like to call a "debatist." No one wants to be challenged on their personal choices. You don't seem to be approaching this concept with an open mind. Can you define what makes anything they say unreasonable? I am not vegan, but I can recognize, definitively, that veganism is better for the environment (by far), healthy (if you make sure you're getting all the nutrients you need, just like any diet), and less cruel to animals. You can choose to disagree that those conclusions mean you need to cut out animal products, but those aren't opinions up for debate. Farming meat is far worse for the environment, vegan diets are perfectly healthy, and obviously, killing animals isn't something the animal wants.
Again, you can disagree with their conclusion that those reasons mean you shouldn't eat animal products, but denying that they're true is like denying climate change. I'm not vegan, so clearly I didn't come to the same conclusion, but I'm not trying to purport that anyone that does is somehow unreasonable.
Yet that is what every vegan does to carnists, in many cases very viciously. I am NOT going up to vegans and telling them to stop being vegan, nor am I judging them for their dietary choices. I ask them questions like 'What would be your plans for all the current living domesticated animals in the hypothetical situation where eating meat is outlawed?' and they flip their shit on a regular basis. I go out of my way to present everything I ask as neutral as possible but all my effort has never once mattered.
I think you are attributing human qualities to nonhuman consciousnesses. There's a lot of evidence that the concept of death doesn't even exist in most animal minds, as well as the fact that animals in the wild suffer FAR more disease, discomfort, illness and death than domesticated and cared for livestock.
That isn't even a real word... I'm sorry I can't take you seriously anymore.
Factually incorrect and anecdotal
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8602129/
Good read, though anyone that's seen a pet mourn their owner or their friend knows that's not true already.
It's a portmanteau of debater and statist. Frankly, I don't care what you think about me. You're clearly biased beyond any reason as to the motives of others, to the point of making false blanket statements about entire groups. Any time someone says "all _____ are _____," there is a problem and they should be questioned. Did the vegans you approach solicit your question? If they did not, then mind your own business. If they did, and "flip their shit," (X to doubt on the reliability of this narrator) then that one person had an issue. The sheer fact that you can easily find very chill vegans online or irl without much effort means you're a statistical anomaly, an asshole, or misrepresenting the truth.