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Originally Posted by borisg  When I got to the animal eating section, I thought to myself "this is where most of your readers will drop out of Steve Pavlina and classify you as a looney vegeterian". |
I am a looney vegetarian, so it's good that people should abandon the site if they can't handle that. I wouldn't want people to get a false impression.
Really the only people who get upset by animal cruelty language are those who are on a path to going veg themselves, but they're still resisting it. They have a strong sense of compassion for animals, but they aren't ready to act on it yet, so they keep doing what they've always done. Sometimes they'll backlash against me for pushing their buttons, but such a reaction really has nothing to do with me. The button is theirs.
Die-hard meat eaters who are congruent in their beliefs don't get offended by such statements. They simply disregard them. Such people have pushed through to a more consistent philosophy, so they see no need to justify or defend eating animals. They just do it and aren't bothered by what others think.
The only people who are bothered are those who are incongruent to begin with.
My intention isn't to push people to go veg. I try to push people to become more congruent, regardless of which way they fall. When I see people settling for an unconscious, inherited choice, I like to push a few buttons to help them reconsider that choice consciously.