Hmm vegans.
Now, the OP maintains 3 things: that vegans are pretentious, that they are twats, and that they judge themselves to be better than non-vegans.

They avoid all animal product in food because it is deemed cruel or exploitative, not because it doesn't taste nice. It is a moral decision. The notions of cruelty and exploitation are rarely considered to be "positive". Therefore, a vegan is certainly judging him/herself to be "better" than those who are not, even if they do not dwell on this "betterness", simply by consciously defining themselves as vegan.

Therefore they are twats. I'm not sure about the pretentious bit. I think you can be a judgemental twat and not pretentious.

I was a vegan for six months, ages ago. It was crap. I am still a twat, but I think it may be unrelated.
(lonelybadger, Sat 29 May 2010, 18:02, 1 reply)

Hehe. Everyone is a twat in their own special ways!
I'm not sure I agree though. Just because you care about what you do doesn't mean you care about what others get up to. (By you I mean a general you, not a you you)

I suppose it would help to meet a few vegans before I stick down my opinions though! I'm not sure I know any.
( vix0r was not Matthew on, Sat 29 May 2010, 22:09, closed)