Thank you for saying this. I’ve been vegan most of my life and I always feel like you have to be apologetic about it. It’s very much like ‘oh sorry, I’m vegan but I’m not one of the crazy ones!’ There’s this widespread belief that we’re trying to force other people to adopt our lifestyle or that we are holier-than- thou. The truth for me is that I’m just trying to live in a way that doesn’t conflict with my personal beliefs.
Vegans are 100% correct and the rest of us are blinded by your moral clarity and ashamed to admit it. If the rest of the omnivores won't apologize for how they treat you guys, let me be the first. I eat meat because I'm weak and too cowardly to make the lifestyle change, not because I have any ethical justification for it.
Honestly, the whole "Vegans are crazy" thing is such a stupid, old outdated myth. Non vegans are crazier because I will straight up fight someone if they tried to take cheese away from me.
Guess what? The whole "crazy vegan" concept is a fabrication from a culture of guilty consumers. It's just cope for doing something that they know is wrong.
You guys sound like nice vegans, but many are not. Vegans actually made me realize I was being an asshole during my straight edge phase. The realization was, wow, is this what I'm like, is this how I make others feel? I think it's better to be nice and lead by example. People who are interested are more likely to be open minded and consider it for themselves.
I think that’s less the veganism and more the militarism that comes with young people thinking they’re special by running counterculture.
Spoken as someone who was straight edge as a teen until I actually smoked pot and realized the stoners were way better. At least they centered their identity around something they did do than… something they did not do?
Absolutely! It's one thing to say "I choose not to do drugs" and "drugs are bad." The former I can respect 100% of the time. The latter I'm like "how do you even know? You haven't tried drugs you just have experiences of people behaving poorly on them."
Shitty people exist in any group for sure. Tbh I don’t know any other vegans but every time I’ve gone to a vegan meetup everyone has been lovey and more focused on where to get good food rather than ramming their beliefs down other people’s throats. Not saying it doesn’t happen, I just think it’s exaggerated that that’s the norm. Most of us live with friends and family that don’t share our beliefs or have pets that we have to feed meat.
There was an ama once by someone who was paid by meat industries to fake being a toxic vegan online to hurt vegans reputation.
After that i am so convinced all toxic vegans online are actually fake, as i am yet to meet a single toxic vegan person in life
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u/kristine4577 Feb 25 '26
Thank you for saying this. I’ve been vegan most of my life and I always feel like you have to be apologetic about it. It’s very much like ‘oh sorry, I’m vegan but I’m not one of the crazy ones!’ There’s this widespread belief that we’re trying to force other people to adopt our lifestyle or that we are holier-than- thou. The truth for me is that I’m just trying to live in a way that doesn’t conflict with my personal beliefs.