tek-monkey
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The psychology of this does interest me. Most people brought up eating meat automatically tend to invoke the disassociating mechanism you mention, which does tend to cloud the right/wrong judgement. Despite what others may have claimed on this thread, I don't think that makes people the "devil incarnate", but nevertheless the inconsistencies are there in people's choices.
You appear to have dissociated yourselves with the rat deaths? Isn't that a clouding of your right/wrong judgement? Is this an inconsistency in your choice?