My journey to veganism

I very much liked all your videos I've been watching, but this one was the one that pushed me the most becoming your patron. So to start: Thank you! This video connected to me so much, because your thoughts are almost the exact same thoughts I had while having a light hearted conversation on veganism with some friends. It was a realisation, that no valid arguments against veganism remain, if you stop tending / respecting your own comfort zone... I have started to reduce my consumption of animal food for quite a long time now, but more out of ecological reasons. I did not even become fully vegetarian yet and - alas and to be honest - I do not know, if I ever will. But I realised, that the only reason for that is my attitude, and my attitude alone: I just did not want to stop eating other animals. It is that simple. Now, that I've stopped my rider rationalizing what I wanted to be the right thing, maybe I will be able to steer my elephant onto the path, which seems more and more the right one for me. Thank you again for your great videos and keep up what you are doing!

Daniel Varga

I dislike labels in general. I've used them politically as necessary. So, I've used atheist, bisexual, transgender, and even, Democrat. But they don't describe me well enough to use them as a definition. It is a shady area, though, because language mutates at an alarming rate. My sense of morals does not rest on reducing suffering. That was a part of Righteous Mind that I had some trouble with. Though his studies were based on the responses of human beings from across the world. And I am almost always an outlier in the studies I've participated in. I have empathy without sympathy. I can hear a persons story, image myself with the same level of mental turmoil, and not feel a bit of need to fix anything. Are there things that need to be fixed? Yes. But I'm far less interested in fixing things for individuals than I am fixing things for long-term survival. I am far less interested in individual suffering than the average human being and more interest in the suffering of the species than the average human being. American politics is a very good window on what human beings really care about.