Your Positions

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

• 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. (Go back)

• We should use as much violence as we like: this is a war. Omnivores deserve to be hurt badly. (Go back)

Things to Consider

Humans are animals too, and their suffering should be considered. Most vegans were omnivores before they were vegans. Just as many former Ku Klux Klan members are now some of the most out-spoken advocates against racism, many of the most powerful vegan activists were former omnivores, including Our Lord and Savior ./Earthling Ed. After World War II, many low-ranking Nazis and German citizens who supported the Nazis were left off the hook. The reasoning behind this was that many of them were unaware of the extent of the brutality their government was undertaking: the death camps were kept secret. Of course, you can argue that they should have suspected it, after seeing Jews forcibly carried off into cattle cars, but people are stupid, and it’s hard for people to see through the propaganda when it conflicts with their own interests and ideologies.

Select the Position that Best Represents Your Views

1. The animal holocaust is ongoing. It’s one thing to not throw reformed omnivores in jail after the vegan revolution is over, but while it is ongoing, we should not hesitate to use violence. Rank-and-file omnivores are contributing both politically and financially to ongoing crimes against sentient life, and our first priority should be stopping it by any means necessary. If people can cheer about and advocate for modern-day Nazis getting punched in the face, we should be able to advocate that omnivores are punched in the face. We should be killing high-level animal abusers without remorse, in the same way we killed Nazi officers without remorse. After the war is won, we should be putting the CEOs of companies like Tyson and Cargill in jail or executing them, just as did for high-ranking Nazi officers.

2. Rank-and-file omnivores are basically civilians. Many of them have been misled, and we should not use violence against them. However, we should be using whatever level of violence is necessary against high-level animal abusers, including killing them if all other approaches have failed. It’s justified for the sake of the greater good, just as it is justified to kill a Nazi officer in a time of war.

3. Rank-and-file omnivores are basically civilians. Many of them have been misled, and we should not use violence against them. However, we should violence against high-level animal abusers once we have exhausted all legal options. These people need to punished harshly to discourage others from following in their footsteps. But we should only hurt them badly, not kill them, as this is unnecessary to achieve our goals.

4. We should only violence for the immediate defense of animals about to be slaughtered, e.g. punching someone to prevent them from slaughtering a whole bunch of animals. But we should not use violence as punishment for past abuses or try to get revenge on high-level animal abusers: the violence is used only to get people to stop the abuse, not as retribution.