[doctorwho]

Moral positions are not facts, they are beliefs. if a person believes meat is bad, then that individual can give up meat. Done. That was easy wasn't it? If they want other people to join the movement, they they can shout about it from the rooftops. However, nothing gives them the right to force their beliefs on anyone else? That's what religious hypocrites do. Think about how most of the other problems you mentioned were created. Religious fundamentalists forcing their beliefs on someone else.

[eevilspock]

WeWork is not "forc[ing] their beliefs on anyone". They are like the pre-US Civil War business that made it a policy not to do business with anyone who owned slaves or use any products of slavery. That's it. WeWork corporate funds won't be spent on meat. There is nothing they are doing other than that.

Speaking of things that "are not facts, they are beliefs", you should check your own. Religious fundamentalists did not create racism, sexism, homophobia or any other prejudice. Religions reflect the prejudices of the people, not the other way around. God did not create us in his image; we created him in ours. People can and will use the power of muscle, religion, science and even art in service of their power, their selfishness, their oppression of other. There was no religion that created Nazi Germany. There is no religion behind Trump's sexism, racism and corruption. There is no religion behind the tech industry's general sexism and refusal to acknowledge it. There is no religion behind humanity's environmental destruction.

There is only human selfishness. Just people unwilling to do the right thing because it involves giving up their advantage, whether its the advantage of their color, their gender, their tribe, the convenience of single-use plastic, or their ability to eat a diet that wouldn't be sustainable if everyone on the planet ate that same diet.

I say all this as a meat-eating atheist-leaning agnostic. If my prior paragraph applies to me and my meat consumption, it is something I must own up to, and do the right thing.

There are more religious people than SV/tech people trying to help the homeless. If anything, the growing inequality fueled by the power and dominance of tech and the tech class is pricing people out of homes and putting people out of work.

I'm certain the "real" Dr. Who would agree with me.

[doctorwho]

People aren't born with prejudices, they have to learn them. The most common source being religion. Without religion we wouldn't have had witch trials, the Crusades and a lot of other really miserable shit. What it didn't outright invent it codified and reinforced, it's just another way of making people afraid in order to control them.

> God did not create us in his image; we created him in ours.

Apparently you don't understand religion at all. This is exactly the opposite of what they believe. Your idea about man creating God is the atheist position. Fundamentalists believe the Bible is the inerrant word of God and his will must be obeyed. They differ only in interpretation and level of conviction.

Some people will use X to justify their behavior but most people are just too stupid for that. Evangelicals come to mind. They just believe whatever they are told because it makes them feel good or special. It's sheer intellectual laziness that allows their though processes to be corrupted or completely bypassed by religious dogma. Once it reaches a tipping point in the population you enable people like Hitler and Trump who will take advantage of the movement to get what they want.

> There are more religious people than SV/tech people trying to help the homeless.

The don't want to help, they want to assuage their own guilt by doing as little as possible. And you can be sure the only homeless they want to help are straight and white and don't live anywhere near their gated communities. The make token donations so they can forget about all the harm they really do by electing idiots who invent bathroom laws, anti-abortion laws, try to keep gays out of the military, kill people by taking away affordable healthcare, give huge tax breaks to the rich and millions of other shitty little laws.

[core-questions]

> People aren't born with prejudices, they have to learn them.

This is patently, provably false.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-group_favoritism