>>40990719Rigid adherence to dogma to the point it inconveniences other people only for you to silently proselytize is just annoying however.
If there are some universal understandings amongst all mankind, across all cultures, some key ones would be that a.) there's a proper time and place for delicate/awkward conversations and b.) nobody likes being told what to do, especially by someone they don't trust 100%. People -may- not mind being -asked- to consider doing something if it's not a crucial thing like not relevant to work or safety etc... being vegan is not a crucial thing. People don't like that will being imposed on them to the point of altering their own abilities to choose what they wanna eat. It's not a religion, it shouldn't be treated as a one.
On the contrary I wonder if it's more like, sometimes maybe they can't trust themselves to not break their creed if they ever bend for anything. Which maybe if I were to guess, implies their faith isn't as strong as they think it is, if they think they will just stop being vegan if they have a really good piece of chicken like once or twice a year. Which honestly isn't surprising to me - we evolved to be omnivorous over millions of years, all the healthiest diets in the world have animal products in them somewhere etc, it's breaking off against what your body is designed to do. Ethics is a very nebulous reason that can be arbitrarily bent, environment is an existing but vague intangible etc, vs that immediate "mmm that is fucking good" factor of food.
