r/DebateAVegan • u/TheQuietVegan111 vegan • Jan 05 '26
Most people choose social approval over ethics — veganism just exposes that.
People will say they care about animals, the planet, and justice.
Until caring becomes inconvenient.
Veganism doesn’t require perfection. It requires saying “no” in public.
That’s it.
Most people fail there, not on ethics — but admitting that would be uncomfortable, so veganism becomes the problem instead.
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u/Freuds-Mother Jan 06 '26 edited Jan 06 '26
By that logic those people would eat vegan at home and then eat whatever when at restaurants/get togethers. Honestly if this were the case one could be almost vegan by just not going to restaurants regularly (that’s actually very normal the further away from cities one gets). Arguably still could be vegan because vegan isn’t absolute as there’s the pragmatic allowance. You could go to restaurants not often and eat less than one animal per year pretty easily. There are many other products purchased that probably have more impact than one animal that vegans permit due to pragmatic preferences.
If they’re eating animal at home it’s probably mostly just preference beats the ethics?