Your Positions

• We should all be vegan. Animals should never be exploited, because they are sentient and have the capacity to suffer.

• Buying leather, honey, meat, dairy, and sweatshop-produced goods is never OK. Paying to go to a circus or zoo for the purpose of entertainment is never OK. We should be more-or-less devoting our lives to protesting and working against these practices, even when it makes other people feel bad or comes with personal sacrifice.

Select the Position that Best Represents Your Views

1. We should use as much violence as we like: this is a war. Omnivores deserve to be hurt badly.

2. Some degree of violence is justified to protect animals, but only when it is sure to be the most effective strategy for bringing about change.

3. We should never use physical violence against people, but we should engage in property destruction like burning down labs and slaughterhouses to cause economic damage to people and industries exploiting animals.

4. We should only use peaceful resistance, including sit-ins, exposés, public demonstrations, direct animal rescue, and legal advocacy. We should never use physical violence or destroy property, but we should not shy away from causing psychological distress in omnivores by portraying the realities of animal exploitation.

5. Causing psychological distress in omnivores by portraying the realities of animal exploitation is OK, but only if there are no other equally effective long-term strategies. Advocating that people eat less meat, having no-pressure Socratic-style dialogues, and listening patiently to the views of omnivores are more effective long-term strategies for ending animal exploitation, so we should be using these the majority of the time.