Well, I encountered my first real struggle on the previous weekend. I went home
to visit my family and ended up eating yes...pizza. The real problem was
that it is already a strained relationship especially with regards to my
choices in life. So to take a stand and put up a fight over something trivial
as a few pieces of pizza is ridiculous. It was also that or eat nothing for
24 hours.
With my brother being apart of the capitalist society and yes
the land rover too, the idea of keeping the heat at 12 degrees or not
eating animal products escapes his mind, so you see it is hard for me to
reconcile these things to him and his wife. They have been very supportive of me
but don't understand why I make the choices I make. I am afraid that if I
start to give them information that it will strain things even further
or that they feel that I am preaching to them. So I simply try to make
some little suggestions and influence them in a minor way, for now at least.
I now know what Stef goes through when she lives at home and must live with others, and compromise must be apart of life. There is always a time and place to make a stand but it must be chosen carefully depending on the topic/ideal.
James
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I know exactly what you mean.
My vegie exception is every Christmas I eat the Turkey at home. Mom wants it to be special and she doesn't know any other way to do it for a veg head, so I go along with it.
Better 98% right than not trying at all because I could not be 100%.
Hey folsk, as an aside it would make it a lot easier to follow the challenge if people identified who they were in the subject line; eg "Situational Ethics" by James
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