Kawoomba comments on Beware Trivial Inconveniences - Less Wrong

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Comment author: kragensitaker 11 August 2011 08:56:38PM 2 points [-]

Well, but unlike the atom-cooling example, becoming a strict vegetarian doesn't cut off your communication with non-vegetarians.

It does make it more difficult to go to the steakhouse with them, or eat over at their house.

Comment author: Kawoomba 29 March 2013 05:42:59PM 1 point [-]

And maybe it should, at least if you're a vegetarian for ethical reasons, you'd probably also value signalling to your social circle that they are, in your opinion, supporting sentient suffering. If the minimizing of which is the reason for you (in the impersonal sense) being a vegetarian.