Re:Most Vegetarians and Vegans Eventually Return to Meat
by falcolas on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @02:15PM
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> Many vegans/vegetarians would accept you to their "club" only after being on probation for a year or two.
So, gatekeeping instead? "You're not a real X unless Y," where "Y" changes to keep out the undesirables.
"You're not a real programmer unless you can do Dijkstra's on a whiteboard from memory."
"You're not a real vegetarian unless you don't eat meat for at least as long as I have."
Re:Most Vegetarians and Vegans Eventually Return to Meat
by beagle3 on Wednesday April 19, 2017 @09:39AM
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Surely there's some definition that's reasonable.
You will not be accepted as a programmer until you've written some code; or as an athlete until you've done some nontrivial athletic stuff. Why should othe categories be different?
Many vegans/vegetarians would accept you to their "club" only after being on probation for a year or two.
It's analogous to saying "most martial artists quit in less than a year". For some definition of "martial artist" that may well be true, but it wouldn't be a definition acceptable to those who actually practice.