This is as sensible and balanced a perspective as one could ask for. Thanks. All four of those items are complex and worthy of discussion, but #4 seems to generate most of the vitriol. I suppose it is understandable. We can have a civil discussion on music piracy without implying that almost everyone is guilty, and the consequences to artists do not merit comparison to atrocities. With the meat issue, one side feels justified in using any means necessary to raise awareness, while the other side performs extraordinary contortions to avoid the question. It is a tough conversation to have, and I found it very difficult to enter without diving directly into the mud. (I even laid groundwork for a slam-dunk slavery analogy that would have settled the issue, in the alternate reality of my imagination.)