[pyre]

Is it any harder than playing "spot the meat-eater?"

What if we replace "vegetarian/vegan" with "homosexual" or "transsexual?" How is trying to bash the idea that vegetarians/vegans "announce" themselves any different than straight conservative people bashing Gay Pride because it "puts their sexuality in my face?"

[pyre]

I'm curious how the parent post has positive points, while this post has been downvoted.

The reality of "spot the vegetarian/vegan" complaints are usually due to disagreement with vegetarianism/veganism. This is much the same way that people that complain about gay people "announcing themselves" is due to either disagreeing with homosexuality, or just plain being uncomfortable with the idea that it exists.

[SixSigma]

It is assumed that everyone eats meat in the same way that everyone is straight.

I don't always get provoked but this one piqued me.

[kjs3]

See: False equivalence.

[pyre]

Expanding on this could be useful.

[kjs3]

Really? You're serious?

- Vegetarians aren't denied fundamental human rights. - Vegetarians have never been denied a security clearance. - Vegetarians were never thrown out of the military for being a vegetarian. - Vegetarians can marry whomever they want (assuming that person wants to put up with a vegetarian). - Noone ever beat a vegetarian to death for being in a bar and being a vegetarian. - The police have never raided a place vegetarians hang out and made a public display of humiliating people for being vegetarian. - No vegetarian has ever been blackmailed for being a vegetarian. - No law has ever been passed making vegetarianism punishable by jail, or death.

I could go on for quite a while. So you get all butthurt because someone said "LOL veggie", and suddenly your righteous indignation makes you morally equivalent to people who have had to fight just to be treated as human for decades. For future reference, that's what a "false equivalence" is. Stop it.