Why I'm proud to be a vegan
Personally I avoid moral and ethical discussion because I think it takes real discipline to create a convincing, general, elegant, and accessible moral framework by which to convince others, and I don&#x27;t think anyone has a go-to framework yet.<p>In fact, I think having a framework for <i>anything</i> is uncommon and difficult (concurrency and parallelism, cognitive science, causal learning, math). The consequence of discussing without a framework is that we&#x27;re really just thinking about what we want, and working backward to find any reason for it, unwilling to just say &quot;It&#x27;s what I want.&quot;<p>I&#x27;ve yet to meet a vegan that provides me a framework with accessibility and clarity, and this article is no exception. I don&#x27;t even have a moral or ethical framework for myself yet, because I know it must be incredibly hard, and I feel like embarking on a search for one would be like wasting one&#x27;s mathematical career on P ? NP. I&#x27;m not a philosophical genius. I&#x27;m just a person with feelings.<p>With morality and ethics, it&#x27;s either you already agree with my values or you don&#x27;t. It&#x27;s nigh impossible for me to persuade you in the value of Jesus the Christ. You would expect me to solve some unsolved philosophical questions with clarity and accessibility, and I likely wouldn&#x27;t even scratch the surface of the problem.<p>I don&#x27;t think any vegan is about to come out with a blockbuster theory that smashes through the philosophical community, building general consensus. In the meantime, they&#x27;re just having feelings like I do, and trying to find justifications for them post-fact.<p>Do you already have the same feelings as I do? Great. Now we can make some arguments about achieving our mutual feelings. But I&#x27;m not going to pretend that it&#x27;s some conclusion of a logical foundation.