I legitimately appreciate that.

As an aside, it’s odd how much was purged from this thread. Not just deleted, but straight up purged so it doesn’t show in the modlogs. I don’t think I’ve seen that done on my instance outside of the illegal stuff. Is that normal here on .world?

Fair enough!

You are most certainly purposefully misunderstanding things at this stage.

Yes, I wasn’t arguing for (or against) veganism and never stated I was. I was arguing against reasons some may give and defending logical ones.

No, veganism isn’t a moral stance. It CAN BE a personal moral stance as well as a dietary one, but morality is not required and may not factor into it. It may be for YOU, but perhaps a person’s stomach just handles meat poorly in some fashion and therefore they choose not to partake. Don’t claim that everyone in a group must also ascribe to your moral stance. They do not.

And no, punishing murder is not a moral stance, it’s a self-preservationist stance. If you can go out and murder indiscriminately, then you yourself can be murdered just as easily.

I’m sorry you don’t understand logic. Please don’t attempt to explain to me one of my degrees when you clearly don’t have even a loose grasp on the concept. Here’s a free course you can take to better understand logic as opposed to a personal moral stance.

I also wasn’t arguing against their dietary choices. I was showing that their arguments could be turned back on themselves because they were spurious at best.

Before I replied, the now-deleted user was stating that there was no reason to eat meat unless you’re a psychopath and love murder and was threatening suicide, violence to others, and other such garbage throughout the thread, then followed it up with a stream of PMs to a bunch of users including myself with some… not great / illegal content (we’ll say).

My response was purely a “let’s look at your statements, but in good faith” exercise.

Put simply, they started attacking food choices first and I called them on it. I’m okay with what I said.

Fair warning: The account you’re arguing with is a troll account who bad-faith argues with everyone, as evidenced by their post history - they often simply have their posts deleted by mods. It’s best to block and move on.

As much as I hate echo chamber-ing, when it comes to trolls, it is occasionally required.

But I didn’t go into a vegan space, nor did I mention logical fallacies.

The thread they brought up was from a memes Community. The person I was posting against at the time was PMing people and telling them to kill themselves.

or would you care to restate everything poorly and in bad faith once again

You weren’t supposed to pick this option.

The post you’re citing was not the 7 month old one I was referencing anywhere. Also, the one you cherry-picked was from a year ago and isn’t anti-vegan either. It’s anti-logically unsound argument (kind of like this one here). I can agree with a stance and disagree with the reason someone does something. I agree with multiple reasons to be vegan explicitly in the post you cite.

And escalating the issue is in concern about the hundreds of rampant bannings, not the veganism.

Also, if that was what you call a parody, you are pretty terrible at parody.

For full clarity of what occurred (and not that my diet is any of your concern, but since you brought it up):

1. I am not vegan, but have been greatly reducing my meat intake and have been toying with going vegetarian.
2. I was kicked from a vegan Community I have never posted in and was about to do for the first time to thank someone for something I found interesting.
3. I do not know why I was kicked from a vegan Community. The reason was cited as a rule that I did not violate. I found hundreds of other bans while looking for why I was banned.
4. I did not argue against veganism. 7 months ago, I did argue in favour of plants as plants are awesome. This should be irrelevant to what occurred with these bans.
5. I did all discussion in a single thread specifically created to discuss veganism in a discussion Community on a completely different instance.
6. The Strawman comment is you claiming I’m somehow screaming “1984” because of the ban. I am not.
7. You are being needlessly combative and creating arguments based on assumption. That is the definition of a strawman.
8. My original post here was made out of confusion, not malice.

Is that enough for you to parse what has occurred, or would you care to restate everything poorly and in bad faith once again?

The issue (they’re banning people left and right) Concerns (e.g. they might be gaming the system), This thread (to show that it isn’t just your personal pet peeve, plenty people are pissed.)

Done! I appreciate the pointers as I would have never known about this on my own.

The last time I spoke about veganism whatsoever was over 7 months ago.

Not to mention that it was specifically in a debate thread dedicated to discussing veganism, nor was I overly negative.

Was this intended to be a strawman of some kind?