Okay, but now we know that excessive antioxidant intake is BAD for you and can actually INCREASE the risk of cancer. So I’m not sure that’s a selling point here.

I’m sorry, but by your train of logic ALL of society’s social advancements can be rolled back, as they’re unnatural. We have no need to move past our base biology. We can eat without killing now? Who cares? We can build meaningful relationships with people instead of raping them? Who cares? We have a legal system in…

Weird. Must be a matter of perspective. I see nothing “wack-a-doodle” about it, and can’t fathom why someone would consider it as such. But whatever. You and I clearly aren’t going to get anywhere further with that level of divide.

Meh. Still seems willfully obtuse to me. You don’t have to agree with an argument to at least understand its internal consistency and follow the line of logic. “This person feels killing for food is immoral, so they don’t eat meat. That doesn’t say a word about how they feel about how meat tastes or feels. Therefore…

Nah, those people are just crazy.

Sure, valid, which is why I do my best not to be “that guy” in anything I care about, and why I call out my own. But on the flipside, I try to remember that when we do that with races or genders or sexual orientations, we’re being bigots. This isn’t as bad, because it’s a chosen behavior, but still, I try to remind…

Okay, but that’s your choice. It’s an entirely valid one, but I can’t see why your logic makes people who don’t share that opinion invalid. For many they do, in fact, strongly desire something as close as they can get to the thing they miss to be happy with it. Seems totally reasonable to me. Just like the people who…

THAT was snark to you? That may be one of the least snarky things I’ve written this month. I think I said “hi” to my girlfriend yesterday with more snark.

Not sure what that has to do with my point. Regardless of whether the ethical arguments are 100% bulletproof or a house of cards, it still takes absolutely ZERO effort to understand that idea that someone who doesn’t want to eat animals may still like/miss the taste/texture of meat, a staple of our society’s foods,…

I’ve never known anyone to suggest garden burgers taste ANYTHING like meat.

Which is why I’m not a vegetarian anymore. But I also *want* to do all kinds of things that I still know aren’t a good idea or go against my morals or ethics. So I don’t do them. *Wanting* to do something, such as WANTING to enjoy the taste and texture of meat, while still preferring not to eat ACTUAL meat is hardly a…

I feel as though you meant to reply to someone else. That had nothing to do with my comment.

I’m sorry I used the word “bother,” although I’ve got to say, a lot of meat eaters seem genuinely BOTHERED by this and spend a lot of time making jokes about it while being obtuse about the obvious reasons it occurs. They sound like the people who don’t understand why lesbians use dildos and strap-ons.

By that logic, why bother to cook at all? So many ingredients are delicious exactly as they are. Why do we insist on combining them and preparing them in unusual ways to turn them into something else?

And I have ALWAYS wondered why this bothers meat-eaters so much and why they’re so incapable of understanding this incredibly simple principle. Vegans/vegetarians have no problem with the taste and texture of meat, they have a problem with the ETHICS of eating it. Why is it remotely strange why they’d want to recreate…

Curious: Why call out the gender of the driver, specifically? Everything else you wrote is spot-on, and relevant to a lot of people who should never have passed. Just curious why her gender was important when it was implied by your later use of the word “her.”

The most regrettable game purchase I ever made was also a Tetris. Tetris Worlds for Game Boy Advance by THQ was garbage. Unnecessary effects, new control standards that ruined the challenge of the game, and nothing resembling a true unlimited mode. Once I got past a certain increase in speed it stopped bothering to…

I was going to say that at first glance it looks exactly like the vehicle drove over, and got caught up in, a wire. We’ve all seen enough wire work in films to recognize this by now.

The boobs, obviously. You seem not to grasp how reactionary and limiting HR policies are in offices. It is in no way, shape, or form unusual for a workplace to not be particularly concerned with their employees doing leisurely web browsing as long as their work gets done, but to blow completely out of proportion over…

You don’t actually work in an office, do you?