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Lumifer comments on What are your contrarian views? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Lumifer 17 September 2014 04:03:36AM 7 points [-]

Is that so? I know there are some vocal vegetarians on LW, I am not sure that makes them the local mainstream.

Comment author: Prismattic 17 September 2014 05:20:15AM 7 points [-]

I think there are more LW members who are meat-eating and feel hypocritical/gulity about it than there are actual vegetarians.

Comment author: Lumifer 17 September 2014 02:44:47PM 7 points [-]

Looking at the 2013 poll:

VEGETARIAN:
No: 1201, 73.4%
Yes: 213, 13.0%
Did not answer: 223, 13.6%

I can't speak to the feeling of guilt, but vegetarians are a small minority here.

Comment author: William_Quixote 07 October 2014 03:49:08PM 0 points [-]

At the time of the poll people had requested more granularity in the answers. I think a lot of folks leaned towards veggie ideas in the sense of reduced or substanceualy below average meat consumption without actualy being vegitayians.

As to how many a lot was, who knows. I think it's likely that vegetarianism is probably more acceptable here than in the population at large and so disagreeing with it would be more contrarian