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Re:Most Vegetarians and Vegans Eventually Return to Meat by falcolas on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @02:15PM (#14141352)
> 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."

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Re:Most Vegetarians and Vegans Eventually Return to Meat by beagle3 on Wednesday April 19, 2017 @09:39AM (#14147586)
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?

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