Goebel Gone Global

Can we just agree that vegetarianism is a *choice*, for fuck’s sake?”

Ethical vegetarians believe that eating meat is morally incorrect for a variety of reasons. How about addressing the argument rather than just suggesting that it’s a choice?

Oh, you have many reasons why you think murder is wrong? Isn’t it really just a choice, though?

I’m not even a vegetarian. I just recognize that saying “it’s a choice” isn’t a reasonable way to justify or reject a moral imperative.

“When one gives up the Christian faith, one pulls the right to Christian morality out from under one’s feet. This morality is by no means self-evident… By breaking one main concept out of Christianity, the faith in God, one breaks the whole: nothing necessary remains in one’s hands.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols