Ray Arachelian <sunder@brainlink.com> wrote
Just out of curiosity what are prices around where you guys live?
In the Vancouver BC area they are trying to raise the price and the new standard is CAN$0.549 per litre, or US$1.37 per US gallon. Not difficult to find CAN$0.454/l or US$1.14/g. For the last few weeks you could find CAN$0.399/l or US$1.00/g. I often go to Blaine WA and the lowest available there is US$1.059. Gas in Seattle WA is at least US$1.199.
Ditto for militant vegans... it's one thing to do it for health reasons, it's another to be an asshole about killing fuzzy animals.. hey veggies are alive too. If you're gonna murder veggies to live, (whose growth results in the death of millions of insects who would devour the veggies if not for insecticides) you may as well quit being a hypocrite and murder animals too...
The only way for a consciencious objecting vegan to not be a hypocrite is to simply stop eating and drinking and breathing... after all, every time he does so, he inhales, ingests, or otherwise murders billions of microbes... :)
Have you ever tried using this argument on a Vegetarian? I have and they squirm in all directions attempting to rationalize their irrational position. Basically some living things are more living than others. Sort of reminds you of some politicians where it is obvious from their actions that some people are more equal than other people. Virtually Raymond D. Mereniuk Raymond@fbn.bc.ca