You give the benefit of the doubt to even bugs based on weak evidence.
No I don't. I never said anything close to that. In fact, I don't even think there's enough evidence to warrant me from not eating honey.
but are morally opposed to eating other brainless things like bivalves.
Again, not opposed to this. I never said anything about this either. Stop assuming positions.
Stop assuming
That's unreasonable. Humans have to assume a great deal to communicate at all. It takes a great deal of assumed background knowledge to even parse a typical English sentence. I said "vegans" are opposed to eating brainless bivalves, not that "Zarm" is. Again I'm talking to the audience and not only to you. You claim to be a vegan, so it is perfectly reasonable to assume on priors you take the majority vegan position of strict vegetarianism until you tell me otherwise (which you just did, noted). You sound more like a nor...
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