Okay, if there’s vegans around, I have a deep question that I would like some opinions on.
The thought started when I played Minecraft. I’ve got a mod called Farmer’s Delight that adds more nuanced cooking to the game, as well as an Addon called Vegan Delight that adds more vegan recipes. I avoid killing the animals in Minecraft, but killing hostile Enemies doesn’t really bother me. Well, a Zombie dropped an onion, and apparently Vegan Delight has a mechanic where it automatically marked the onion as “Not vegan” because it came from a thing I killed.
Well I wonder, was that onion really not vegan?
I tried to come up with a similar real life situation and landed on this:
A robber breaks into your house and you shoot and kill him. He drops dead and a packet of vegan candy falls out of his pocket. Would it be non-vegan to eat that candy while you wait around for the police to arrive?
I deleted my comment asking if you are vegan because I didn’t include “and that’s why I don’t talk about veganism with non vegans” despite intending too so it’s not a relevant question.
In neither case are you exploiting an animal and turning their body/excretions into a commodity so in neither case is the food non-vegan.
It was a snap reaction because I thought someone was doing the thing I just said I wouldn’t do, but I didn’t actually say it lol. Not my proudest moment.
For what it’s worth I don’t really care if people do non vegan things in video games. I won’t enjoy a game if it has me doing explicitly non vegan things but that’s just me and my preferences.
Okay, if there’s vegans around, I have a deep question that I would like some opinions on.
The thought started when I played Minecraft. I’ve got a mod called Farmer’s Delight that adds more nuanced cooking to the game, as well as an Addon called Vegan Delight that adds more vegan recipes. I avoid killing the animals in Minecraft, but killing hostile Enemies doesn’t really bother me. Well, a Zombie dropped an onion, and apparently Vegan Delight has a mechanic where it automatically marked the onion as “Not vegan” because it came from a thing I killed.
Well I wonder, was that onion really not vegan?
I tried to come up with a similar real life situation and landed on this:
A robber breaks into your house and you shoot and kill him. He drops dead and a packet of vegan candy falls out of his pocket. Would it be non-vegan to eat that candy while you wait around for the police to arrive?
I deleted my comment asking if you are vegan because I didn’t include “and that’s why I don’t talk about veganism with non vegans” despite intending too so it’s not a relevant question.
In neither case are you exploiting an animal and turning their body/excretions into a commodity so in neither case is the food non-vegan.
sadly, I am vegan (soon to hit the 2 year mark). I just like asking stupid questions.
It’s not a stupid question lol
It was a snap reaction because I thought someone was doing the thing I just said I wouldn’t do, but I didn’t actually say it lol. Not my proudest moment.
For what it’s worth I don’t really care if people do non vegan things in video games. I won’t enjoy a game if it has me doing explicitly non vegan things but that’s just me and my preferences.
my dude that’s a video game
I don’t play video games where I have to hunt or fish because I don’t enjoy that 🤷♀️
yeah, a sandbox videogame that I can play however i like
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