Yet, this is the very thing myself was doing by continuing to participate in eating animals and animal by-products. In both cases, by doing the thoughtless and easy thing, the thing that is normal, we're implicated in the harms.

By choosing the thoughtful and more challenging path, the ethical path, we don't stop those harms. We don't get to wave a magic wand and make it "If nobody bought meat" or "If everybody still masked".

Nonetheless, for myself, my own anger—at how quickly folk chose to pretend an ongoing pandemic was over—revealed myself as a hypocrite.

Wearing a mask consistently is more work. It requires more thought. Refusing to participate in systems of harm, however many steps removed we may individually be, is never going to be the easy path.

Nonetheless, if I'm gonna be angry with others for not putting in that work, then I don't get to claim it's too hard for me to put in the work of finding alternatives to eating animals. That was the day myself chose veganism.

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