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Why Vegans should be Libertarians and not Leftists

WilliamWheatonNov 26, 2017, 9:24:01 PM
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Veganism and Libertarianism:

This is one that really gets me. Vegans tend to associate or identify with the political left. I don’t understand why that is, and I don’t really care beyond its being identifiably being very stupid. Take for example our EBT, or SNAP food stamp programs. One can use SNAP to purchase food. Those who do will have Medicare or Medicaid pick up the tab on all the health problems associated with obesity which could be very easily be done away with through plant-based diet. Obesity is pandemic among the welfare class which is absurd to begin with. I as a vegan make my decision to treat my body well in that way. I am expected to pay for the food through my tax dollars for those that don’t. I am more one who became a vegan for medical reasons, animal rights for me is but an afterthought. The first attack people are going to make is “you place more value on animal life than human life”. That is in fact a complement if one considers the rampant parasitism of the welfare class. I pay for some obese, barely literate fat bitch to walk into a 7-11 and buy animal byproduct through my tax dollars. The vegan should really be asking questions such as “why do my tax dollars go to this?”, “what has this person contributed to society of value that I should concern myself with their wellbeing?”, and “why should the wellbeing of those who have done nothing for me be of concern for me?” and “if I am intelligent enough to avoid heart attack, stroke and diabetes by adopting a vegan diet, why should my money go to the well being of those were not smart enough to make that decision?” It is an inherent quality of socialist/communist systems to reward failure as opposed to success. With obesity having the rampant prevalence that it clearly has among the welfare class of society, and the lack of interest said obese welfare recipients have (as shown more or less by their obesity. Why would Vegans have any interest or stake in preserving the system as such. Sure, there are broke Vegans but even they are likely to be more educated than said welfare class as they have doubtlessly even had the education to examine the medical issues or the ethical issues concerning animal rights. Obese welfare recipients clearly don’t have that as part of their agenda. Underlying socialism is an intention of financial self-interest. The underclass voted for Obama to get free phones, free meals, unemployment benefits and whatever other free services they feel they should be entitled too. Theirs is not a moral purity. They act out of financial self-interest in so doing. You would think for the vegan one would step up and say “I don’t really feel comfortable paying for you to eat animal product and I don’t want my tax dollars to go to your medical care when you get sick from it”. That’s how I take it. Those who are vegans more so for questions of animal rights ethics should thus also consider what value does human life have? Does one’s life have value to me simply for their being, or is my respect for their life determined by what they have done with their lives? If one answers that people have to earn your respect and care, which is usually how it goes with people, then you have to evaluate what the welfare class has done for you that would give them a pass on eating animal by product and having you pay for it with your tax dollars. If the animal rights activist type Vegan has to look at that objectively and really consider what it is that obese welfare recipients contributes to our society that we should subsidize their indulgences regarding the consumption of meat, they’re going to look very hard at the identity of the freeloader, and by their actions it’s going to be very clear that you’re really by supporting the socialist state paying for someone else’s lunch which contains meat and other animal byproducts. It’s very simple. Socialism is a strategy of acting in financial self-interest. Where you have a portion of society that is relatively wealthy, certainly quite educated, and potentially powerful if united why should they tolerate and coddle the needs of those who have no concern for our cause? If that’s not enough to dissuade you, there is this to consider. If by paying for another to eat meat, does one not subsidize their health problems in order only to get charged in tax dollars to treat their cardiovascular diseases later? Every state school, prison, or military facility has meat and other animal byproducts served. Why is it that one would feel expanding the size and power of the state is going to benefit the vegan cause? It actually doesn’t. This is what I think Vegans should do. I think we should operate in collusion in business the way other groups (Jews, Freemasons, Mormons) do as that would be a relatively affluent and educated portion of society. Secondly, I feel we should operate in a libertarian rather than socialist way, Just as a healthy body does not require any LDL cholesterol it doesn’t make itself, a healthy body must clean itself of parasites, which is what that portion of society that eats meat on your tax dollar ultimately is.