Citation, please.

I am sure that I don’t fully understand your question but I will take a stab at answering it anyway.

I am not questioning the sincerity of anyone’s beliefs, although just in case one is sincere in one’s beliefs, sincerity alone is no reason for one to pay any particular respect to another’s beliefs. I take it, for example, that a racist is sincere in her racist beliefs but that such sincerity doesn’t count as a reason to respect such a belief. Certainly there are persons who sincerely believe in either abolition or welfare, whatever such a belief would mean to them and whatever either such term – abolition or welfare – might refer to for them. No one ought to be surprised to learn that such persons attempt to capitalize on their beliefs, whatever that might mean to them. However, myself, I am bored with the “abolition vs. welfare” debate, regardless of either the sincerity of the beliefs of others or of other’s attempts to capitalize on their beliefs in as much as they may be able.

A partial solution, as I said in the post, will perhaps involve steps backward, meaning that partial solutions will sometimes appear to be a furtherance of the problem. How we can tell when something is a solution? There are no solutions, if by solutions one means “no more problems”, that’s the point.

And also, how do you determine what a “solution” is (partial or not) that we should be getting messy working toward? Meaning, how can we tell if something is a “solution” or just a furtherance of “the problem”?

I loved that quote
Also, I feel you, Tim, on this article. I’m the only vegan I know in RL. I live in the rural South, where being vegan is more than a joke, it’s also a sin. I kid you not. How my Christian grandmother can tell me I’m immoral for abstaining from meat, while she advocates the murder (inhumane or otherwise) of her God’s creation is beyond me, but such is the logic of the people in my life. I feel very tired and worn out trying to merely justify my veganism, much less trying to “show the light” to others. It really does seem to me that only when corporations and the gov’t no longer see nonhumans as viable resources for money that their exploitation will end. It’s a sad truth. But, I will never stop following what I know is right, and I’ll probably never stop telling people of the beauty that is a vegan lifestyle.