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What Is Self-Protective Moral Abandonment?

Self-protective moral abandonment is when someone abandons doing the right thing to protect their self-interests. It is when someone chooses not to do what they know is right because it would be too inconvenient or costly for their own interests. The disturbing thing about this behavior, and what sets it apart from other immoral behavior,…

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You know a situation is doomed when you can not say how bad it is.

In our current situation, you can not say how bad things truly are without being ostracized by the vast majority of the population. In fact, if you express indignation and condemnation in proportion to the atrocities committed against animals, you are ostracized even by the majority of the vegan community. Acknowledging the true severity of…

A Missing Key in the Animal Rights Movement — The Power of Music to Counter Social Conformity

A Missing Key in the Animal Rights Movement — The Power of Music to Counter Social Conformity

Why is it that the animal rights movement has created so little effective change in the past decades that activists have been fighting to protect animals? Why is it that despite veganism going mainstream in the public awareness, more and more animals are being murdered every year? Yes “murder”—needless killing for selfish reasons is murder….

How Our Culture of Eating Animals Creates Our Culture of Violence
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How Our Culture of Eating Animals Creates Our Culture of Violence

Growing up and living in a world where it is normalized to kill and eat animals conditions you to view animals as separate from you. You do not see yourself in animals, you do not see innocent, childlike souls in animals, unless you overcome this conditioning. In childhood we are disconnected from our innate knowing…