I don't think you've actually said much here to address the points I've made, and in fact they where not made towards your post, but the person you where replying to. Which is what I meant by @the parent comment... as in the comment you where replying to. Also, I think your writing style could merit some really good fiction. You certainly have projected quite a bit about me, and how other people view me in reality. It's actually kind of amusing... my comment leaving so much of an impression on you that your imagining what I must be like, how people must interact with me. It's almost like a fantasy. I find it odd that you consider someone obtuse for not changing their entire world view just because meat is offered to them by someone. Should it matter the ethnicity of the person offering really? I wonder if you would eat human flesh because it would be arrogant to refuse based upon your selfish dietary restrictions. You can frame this how ever you want, and it seems you are really good at abstract framing. Grandiose and descriptive ad-homonym attacks also seem to be your forte.... but they do little to address my points. Firstly being their is an irrational culture of hate on the internet for vegetarians. Secondly being that all suffering isn't equal. Even if someone might have suffered to get you that vegetable, it isn't likely that is was MORE suffering then animals who where mistreated by industry and factory farms their whole lives. Thirdly this idea that vegetarians change their entire diet to feel 'better' then everyone else is absurd. It is more a manifestation of other people's (people who eat meat obviously) feelings then the feelings of vegetarians. I haven't eaten meat in maybe 15 years, and I've never felt 'better' then other people. I barely even tell other people unless they ask.