knowledge is a justified, true belief. if you disbelieve something you can't "know it". similarly, if your justification is insufficient, you can't know it. finally, if it actually isn't true (which would be a good reason it lacks justification), you also can't know it.

i can't help with the depression but i might be able to help alleviate the guilt. is there some particular fact that you think is the crux of it all, which, if you didn't believe it, or found your justification was insufficient, or just that it's not true, you would be happier? i'm pretty good at evaluating positive claims and determining whether they are rational.

[–] inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You sound like queer people in the 80s and 90s.

"What does it matter if one person accepts me? Won't change anything and it just bums me out."

Now, acceptance is the default position for most folk.

[–] shneancy@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

as a queer person in the now I do not think this is comparable, at all.

[–] inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Well, as a queer vegan. Its really hard not to notice that bigots and carnists say the same sort of things.

"You're just trying to feel special." "It's unnatural, your gentials/teeth were evolved for a specific use". "Stop trying to convert kidsto your cult." "Queer/vegan people always think they are so enlighted."

But more to the point, defeatism is always an easy excuse to do nothing. But individual actions can have ripple effects through generations. Do you think that those at stonewall would expect an entire month celebrating their actions? Enough people making a choice not to support animal agriculture puts the concept out of business. Do I expect that or liberation soon? No. But it's gotten LIGHTYEARS better on both fronts in my own lifetime.