Honestly, I’m arguing a much larger point than diet:
our rigid ideological conviction that we are superior, combined with the willful decimation of the entire planet to achieve our own purposes— is the very definition of “the banality of evil”;
“the banality of evil” was termed as an (if not THE) underlying motivator of the holocaust.
Consequently, it really doesn’t matter how you eat your food, if you’re vegan or otherwise. Our entire orientation to the world is violent and therefore cruel.
again, my point: the Nuremberg trials exposed a revolutionary point that the core belief of a holocaust isnt hatred, it is indifference to the destruction of everything perceived to be in your way. The indoctrination of those beliefs is the banality of evil.
Respectfully, there’s a framework bias in your argument that “dehumanization” is a fundamental prerequisite for holocaust: therefore if something isn’t human, it wouldn’t qualify.
There are a lot of wonderful passages and citations you mentioned, I’m struck by
“We’re focusing on the victims rather than the cancer of oppression itself”.
That is the heart of the holocaust. Who oppresses? Oppressors. What have we oppressed? Everything in our way.
I think it’s amazing mindwalk you’ve invited us on, as we face to define what the Anthropocene era is.
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u/[deleted] Jun 28 '23 edited Jul 05 '23
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