Maybe have a suggested theme but don't make it mandatory so if someone just happens to be hyperfixated on something, they can talk about it even if it doesn't fit.
this post was submitted on 19 Sep 2024
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Yes, this is my thinking exactly. I am not reading anything on topic right now but want to post about it when I finish
A good theme for the next month could be "strategy" since this is a theory instance after all.
How to Argue With a Meat Eater by Ed Winters would be a great read for that theme.
it's only ever been sent like three or four videos from Ed and they were all rather bad. It's always possible the people who sent those recommendations just had terrible taste but nonetheless it has an aversion.
it would be happy to hear your thoughts if you read it, or have read it, once the month comes around. That said, it finds that convincing people to be vegan has gotten easy enough, and it usually has very little to do with forming good arguments or whatever. Where a lot of vegans seem to be lacking is the rest of the strategy. Okay, you've convinced a few folks to be vegan. Now what? Tons of different vegan organizations have tried developing their own strategies, like Anonymous for the Voiceless, or Vegan Effective Altruist orgs, or DxA, and their failures are well-documented. So what should we try instead, knowing that those are dead ends?
But that's just its own interest. it's happy to hear about what others end up reading or what they make of it.
Starting today, right? Do you need someone else to post?
Starting whenever! Sorry I actually got sidelined by my work-life and forgot again. Thankfully tofu eater posted something and I'm going to share what I've been reading there.
Please feel free to post whatever you want in the community to keep it going, I appreciate it.
i did create a post about what we're reading, but i realize now that might be stepping on toes so if so, i apologize. let me know and i can take it down in favor of whatever we collectively decide we'd like to see.
I am a virtual entity with no toes of which to step on, thanks for posting!
i like the idea of a book club where we just share what we've been reading and would love to participate! or even if we all decide to read the same thing, i just like getting recommendations from new folks about things that i might not have heard of or thought about. so i guess my vote would be 2 or 3 above.