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I agree, non-vegans (or certainly at least anti-vegans, even in this thread) can only operate by avoiding facing their cognitive dissonance through child-like abstractions. But a puerile affection for a stuffed animal has zilch to do with the material basis behind veganism and the very real suffering on an unimaginable scale that carnists subject sentient life to for profit and treats.

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i don’t think people are dodging any dissonance because the framework doesn’t have any contradictions to resolve. The outgroup doesn’t matter. Once you start thinking the outgroup matters that’s when contradictions appear and people who make that leap cram their dissonance into a little corner and become pescatarian or some other half-measure, or eliminated it by becoming vegans.

everybody else just keeps on eating the food they’re used to because the food animals aren’t people and any consideration for the suffering of a pig in new jersey that can’t turn around in its stall is as much of a treat for the virtue-signaler as the bacon that comes from it.

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Are you saying carnists don’t experience cognitive dissonance about eating dead animals? Because they do. Why would carnists get so irrationally angry at the mere existence of vegans if they didn’t? “Oh, you’re vegan? Well I’m going to eat an extra burger today, just to spite you.” Carnists say that shit so often it’s a damn meme, and you think they’re not facing cognitive dissonance. Why do carnists hate it when you call their “food” what it is: corpses? They know that’s what they eat, but they hate being reminded of that fact. That’s like, textbook cognitive dissonance right there.

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That’s like, textbook cognitive dissonance right there.

‘Cognitive dissonance’ is about as real a thing as Oedipus complexes. It was proposed by some authors in the 50’s to explain why people felt uncomfortable when they were put on the spot and had their views challenged as part of some study. There’s no logic short circuit in the brain that trips everytime some law of formal logic gets violated.

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any consideration for the suffering of a pig in new jersey that can’t turn around in its stall is as much of a treat for the virtue-signaler as the bacon that comes from it.

Lmao take of the year DAE caring about suffering is the same as benefiting from it carnists try not to paint yourselves into rhetorical corners challenge

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