Originally Posted by
bexley
What is with this wannabe anti-sensationalist "good luck trying to change the world" jive I get from non-vegans so often (not necessarily here)? These ppl try to paint the simple, human behaviour of operating under one's own ethics to be some kind of fascist statement of the ultimate and necessary good. And if doing what one thinks is right doesn't have its own end, seperate from any precipitating effects, then yea, there probably isn't a point to using a system of ethics at all, save for belief in biblical redemption and the afterlife.
Creating your own ethics is an exercise in futility
Acts 10:9-18
9 The next day, as they were on their journey and coming near the city, Peter went up on the housetop to pray, about the sixth hour. 10 And he became hungry and desired something to eat; but while they were preparing it, he fell into a trance 11 and saw the heaven opened, and something descending, like a great sheet, let down by four corners upon the earth. 12 In it were all kinds of animals and reptiles and birds of the air. 13 And there came a voice to him, "Rise, Peter; kill and eat." 14 But Peter said, "No, Lord; for I have never eaten anything that is common or unclean." 15 And the voice came to him again a second time, "What God has cleansed, you must not call common." 16 This happened three times, and the thing was taken up at once to heaven.