Sat, Mar-19-05, 17:57
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Plan: Protein Power
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Sorry, Paleoanth, you provided a poor justification for veganism. The fact that some things may be unnatural doesn't justify something else's being unnatural. This is the fallacy of the undistributed middle.
The problem is that traditional vegan rhetoric does claim that veganism is natural and superior and makes a lot of pseudoscientific claims to back up that contention, both in the area of paleoanthropology and biochemestry, all of which are wrong. You yourself pointed out the paleoanthropological fallacy by referring to the expensive tissue hypothesis.
No one cares what Aloethe eats, and no one is objecting to veganism, as long as we understand that veganism is a quasi-religion that is primarily concerned with personal and spiritual purity based on a highly particularistic concept of purity. As such, it has nothing to do with science or health. Veganism has the same relationship to science as creationism does to evolution.
However, another component of vegan rhetoric is the insufferable moral superiority directed at anyone who doesn't share their view of purity, as evinced by the PETA and PCRM crowd, and which Aloethe has shown in her responses to this board. The people on this board are fed up with vegan moral superiority and can be excused if they overreact to specious vegan arguments.
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