The fur industry has almost collapsed in the last few decades thanks to public distaste for wearing fur.
Vegans didn’t get there by gently encouraging people to wear less fur.
They got there by raising awareness of the inhumane conditions in fur farms, and by shaming the fuck out of celebrities wearing fur.
Shame works.
Shame teaches.
Because people - people like those on this very thread, who know eating meat is immoral and do it anyway - people who don’t have the willpower to overcome their addiction to meat, and let’s not fucking kid ourselves, if you know something is the wrong thing to do, if you know it’s morally wrong, harmful to your health, and harmful to the environment, but you can’t stop yourself from doing it anyway, that is a fucking addiction…
Those people need the negative reinforcement of social shame, as well as the positive reinforcement of doing the right thing. Shame is an immediate social consequence of doing the wrong thing. You may not hear the animals screaming in factory farms, you may not see the forests that burn to grow the monocrop soy they eat, you may not be able to smell or touch or taste the CO2 that’s killing the world, but when you order a burger and the server’s face twists in disgust, that’s an immediate social consequence that will hopefully discourage you from doing it again.
If you eat meat, you are doing a shameful thing. You should be ashamed. You deserve to feel shame. And I hope for all our sakes that shame teaches you a lesson.
Uh huh.
The fur industry has almost collapsed in the last few decades thanks to public distaste for wearing fur.
Vegans didn’t get there by gently encouraging people to wear less fur.
They got there by raising awareness of the inhumane conditions in fur farms, and by shaming the fuck out of celebrities wearing fur.
Shame works.
Shame teaches.
Because people - people like those on this very thread, who know eating meat is immoral and do it anyway - people who don’t have the willpower to overcome their addiction to meat, and let’s not fucking kid ourselves, if you know something is the wrong thing to do, if you know it’s morally wrong, harmful to your health, and harmful to the environment, but you can’t stop yourself from doing it anyway, that is a fucking addiction…
Those people need the negative reinforcement of social shame, as well as the positive reinforcement of doing the right thing. Shame is an immediate social consequence of doing the wrong thing. You may not hear the animals screaming in factory farms, you may not see the forests that burn to grow the monocrop soy they eat, you may not be able to smell or touch or taste the CO2 that’s killing the world, but when you order a burger and the server’s face twists in disgust, that’s an immediate social consequence that will hopefully discourage you from doing it again.
If you eat meat, you are doing a shameful thing. You should be ashamed. You deserve to feel shame. And I hope for all our sakes that shame teaches you a lesson.
Is being shamed the rake to the face here? I’m not otherwise understanding the negative effect an oblivious meat-eater encounters tbh
I understood the rake to the face as the self-own each carnist comes around to eventually “I kill others for my pleasure”