VeganPizza69 Ⓥ

No gods, no masters.

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  • OK, finally got through it.

    1. There is no perfect term to use. A term is infused with meaning by people over time, transforming like a fossilization process, but with culture.
    2. If you agree that no perfect term can exist, perfect in that self-explanatory and “immortal definition” sense, then you have to agree that a lot of thought needs to go into how a term can be used and abused, how it can be shifted, how aesthetic it is, and so on. Those are jobs for writers and very creative people.
    3. If you really want it to be big, the term probably needs to be internationalized. If your term is very ‘englishy’, then it’s no bueno. The term “vegan” at least sounds similar in many languages and is novel and short, two syllables, so it’s easy to learn and not confuse with others.

    Sentientism and many like it are great, but those are more academic terms. It’s great if you read books, but look up the statistics on reading non-fiction non-self-help books.

    Animalism does sound cool, but I can imagine 10 different ways it could wrong easily, including being subsumed into some weird primitivist human supremacism.