Yeah... I have run into things like this before, and they are oh so frustrating. I kind of characterize it as the idea that "I'm living my life by decent principles, therefore everything I do must be fine, therefore any identification of large-scale problems need to be crafted in such a way as to make it really obvious that what I'm doing is still just fine, because if it doesn't I'll have to convince myself that it's wrong in order to protect my feelings of personal rightness". I suspect that a lot of meat-eaters' apparent objection to just the existence of vegetarians-for-ethical-reasons are related to this as well.
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Date: 2009-03-06 05:51 am (UTC)