You are completely right about how different moral centers affect how we perceive a certain topic or conversation. I also think there's a bit of a cultural gap which might not be helping. Where I come from people don't chew their words. We speak what we think and sometimes that rubs people the wrong way, but that's ok because we're being honest and we'll get the same honesty in return.

I rarely use deliberately aggressive language, so it makes me ponder how much of the negative response is due to my way of expressing myself and how much is from automatic defensiveness that triggers on certain people.

It's impossible to talk about animal rights without indirectly insinuating mass murder. That is the elephant in the room and that is why it is impossible to miss it. However, why should that be received with such negativity? Because it goes against the established culture.

Today we look back at people who fought for human rights with admiration. I'm sure those people fought through hell against the arrogance and selfishness of the human ego before winning those rights. I don't see the battle for animal rights to be much different. In fact I believe that human rights make absolutely no sense in a world with slaughter houses. Just typing that term makes my hair creep - slaughter houses. Houses of murder. A place where we send creatures, as long as they're not our own, to be killed, skinned, de-feathered, de-boned, sliced, packaged for human pleasure. How can we not look at this and not agree that it's sick?!!

Anyway, because I feel so strongly about this injustice I come across extreme to many. And I certainly feel isolated or ignored by the many. And because this is a tough battle to fight on my own, sometimes I consider giving up... until I come across the next comment about how tasty some dead body was, which makes my heart revolt and ignites the fire all over again. And I'm exhausted.