whats the most effective way of talking about veganism/ spreading veganism?
here are 2 of the more common schools of thought on the subject
>the open ended, asking questions, "socratic method" style
this style takes the person's feelings into consideration, and their cognitive dissonance about the ethics of eating meat. it tries to avoid putting any labels on anyone such as "hypocrite", "animal abuser", "you pay for animals to be tortured", because this ends up upsetting people and their rational brain stops functioning properly. it tries to get the person to come up with their own conclusions and by asking questions, you can point out people's contradictory beliefs without overtly pointing it out and putting them on the spot
>the direct, "attacking", in-your-face, style where you use facts, logic, make statements, and rebuke people's arguments with little regard to their feelings or cognitive dissonance
this style only focuses on being right, and takes puts less emphasis on trying to get the listener to understand. despite being technically right, usually this style causes a emotional response and cognitive dissonance, which ultimately is counter-productive
a good example of the "open ended" style is earthling ed. rather non-confrontational and easy to speak to, despite making the same points
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and maybe vegan gains would be the "direct" style, where the feelings of the person he's addressing arent as relevant, and he mocks them, and is much more rude
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i feel like most likely, the non-threatening, "open ended" style is much more effective at getting people to understand their mistakes and cognitive dissonance. but its really hard to do this, like its rather tilting being polite to people who are insulting you and not making any logical sense. the 2nd style is much easier to do, but i dont think its very effective