The psychology behind the hatred of vegans. pretty interesting read...

bbc.com/future/article/20200203-the-hidden-biases-that-drive-anti-vegan-hatred

the psychology behind the hatred of vegans. pretty interesting read. the reason why people hate vegans is because simply by the vegans EXISTENCE it causes subconscious cognitive dissonance, which the meat eating NPC copes with insulting and harassing the vegan

"People love to moan that vegans are annoying; research has shown that only drug addicts inspire the same degree of loathing. Now psychologists are starting to understand why - and its becoming clear that the reasons arent entirely rational."

"Research has shown that only drug addicts face the same degree of stigma - and the least popular vegans of all are those who cite animal cruelty as their reason. Given that most of us would probably like to see less suffering in the world, why is there such resentment towards those who do something about it?"

"Some psychologists take another view - that far from being driven by factors within our conscious awareness, the widespread resentment we have for vegans is down to deep-seated psychological biases."

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"So what Im looking at is, how do people rationalise eating meat, and still feel like theyre a good person?" To continue to eat meat, Rothgerber suggests, requires some serious mental gymnastics. Luckily, our brains are extremely good at protecting us from realities we dont want to face - and there are a number of psychological tricks at our disposal.

"If you bring your cod and chips home to eat in front of your beloved goldfish, or tuck into a rabbit stew mere moments after cooing over various #rabbitsofinstagram, youre likely to encounter "cognitive dissonance", which occurs when a person holds two incompatible views, and acts on one of them. In this case, your affection for animals might just start to clash with the idea that its OK to eat them."

"Some psychologists call this the "meat paradox", though its also been couched in stronger terms - as "moral schizophrenia"

"The tension that results can make us feel stressed, irritated, and unhappy. But instead of resolving it by changing our beliefs or behaviour, its quite normal to blame these feelings on something else entirely - all without realising were doing it."

"In the case of eating meat, Rothgerber suggests we have a number of strategies - around 15 - which allow us to avoid facing up to the meat paradox. These include pretending that meat has no link to animals, imagining that we eat less of it than we really do, wilful ignorance about how its produced - helped by the cartoons of happy farm animals that were exposed to from childhood - and only eating meat from animals which are "humanely" farmed. Unfortunately, most of these are derailed by the presence of vegans".

"But when a vegan turns up at a dinner party, suddenly were bumped out of the comfortable "mainstream diet" category and into the unsettling "meat-eating" category. By their mere existence, vegans force people to confront their cognitive dissonance. And this makes people angry."

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"Theres a lot of research on how we dont like members of groups who are potentially morally inferior, or which society sees as wrong," says Benoit Monin, a psychologist from Stanford University who was also involved in the study. "But its intriguing to me that we also reject members of groups who have made laudable choices on purpose."

"Theres mounting evidence that were particularly threatened by people who have similar morals to us, if theyre prepared to go further than we are in order to stick to them. In the end, our fear of being judged far outstrips any respect we might have for their superior integrity."

In fact, Monin says this fear of reproach is so potent, vegetarians are likely to be more threatened by vegans than non-vegetarians are. "They agree that there is something wrong about raising animals for food, and now theyre faced with someone whos putting their money where their mouth is, more than they do."

"Theyre right to be afraid; research shows that vegans think vegetarians are hypocritical. According to Rothgerber, "do-gooder derogation" might be a way of shifting attention away from our own dubious decisions, to help to soothe the uncomfortable feelings that cognitive dissonance creates."

"The finding also explains why ethical vegans and vegetarians are more irritating to omnivores than those who choose the lifestyle for health reasons."

tldr; meat eaters have vegans because they cause cognitive dissonance in vegans, and simply cannot handle the fact that they are morally superior, so instead these NPC meat eating retards take it out on vegans by hating on them. vegans are literally as discriminated against as minority groups or drug addicts

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Imagine making the argument that meat eaters are irrational and dumb while vegans are morally superior then end it with 'we're discriminated like a minority' like no shit sherlock act like a prick get treated like one

>vegans are literally as discriminated against as minority groups or drug addicts
Good you bunch of fuckin homos

Vegans are retarded and unhealthy. They might as well be women with all the estrogen in them

>be morally superior person who doesnt pay for animals to be enslaved and killed for your taste pleasure
>UR A PRICK, YOU DESERVE IT, STOP BEING MORALLY SUPERIOR TO ME AND THEN ILL LIKE YOU

how fucking braindead are you, you mouth breathing npc? god ur stupid

vegans have lower bmi's and highest testosterone out of any dietary group. how's life like as a fat pig?

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I like meat
Prove me wrong

this is literally like muslims who rape and prostitute children saying "i like raping children, prove me wrong"

your taste pleasure has a victim, in the same way that the muslim rapist's sexual preference has a victim

all mammals are sentient and can suffer just as deeply as humans, they are all capable of experiencing fear, love, envy, hunger, boredom, curiosity and pride

dumbass retard. if i said "i love kicking dogs to death because its fun, prove me wrong", youd piss your panties, but you turn around and enjoy killing animals for your taste pleasure. god ur stupid

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I hate meat and I think it's disgusting, not because of where it comes from, but in terms of taste and consistency. But I hate vegans more, so I'll keep eating meat.