If you're not willing to do LJ support...

[avram]

You’ve probably seen this argument: If you’re not willing to personally kill and butcher an animal, you shouldn’t eat meat.


If you’re not willing to personally do construction work, you shouldn’t live in a building.

If you’re not willing to personally tailor cloth, you shouldn’t wear clothing.

If you’re not willing to personally grind your own pigments, you shouldn’t paint.

If you’re not willing to personally write an OS kernel from scratch, you shouldn’t use a computer.

If you’re not willing to personally sing in public, you shouldn’t listen to songs.

If you’re not willing to personally bear/father a child, you shouldn’t adopt.

If you’re not willing to personally break CO₂ down into carbon and oxygen, you shouldn’t breathe.

Comments

[batyatoon]

What did the botany student eat, if not previously living beings? Dirt?

No, that's just it. She ate previously living things, just like absolutely everything alive does (except for those that eat currently living things). She just didn't want to think about the fact that they'd once been alive, and was very uncomfortable discussing it.
(Actually I'm not sure if it's the "alive" bit that bothered her. But she was very squicked by her friend pointing out the plant-anatomy of the vegetables they were buying...)

The only problem was finding honest language that was in or near his vocabulary.

Well, there's that of course.

[avram]

So she may have just been squicked at eating plant genitals. (Aiieee! Broccoli penis!)