Maynard:
>I don't think so.
>I think that there are well-balanced vegans of all sorts.

It depends how you define well-balanced.  People who think that nudity
and premarital sex is a sin can be the nicest and most honorable
persons you could meet but it does not change my opinion that expressed
in their views they have a lot of unresolved personal issues to deal
with.

>Society, and comments and attitudes like yours, make life much more
>difficult for such sensitivities, so they are obliged to carry an
>added burden that others do not feel obliged to carry.

Life is difficult enough as it is, and I have no intention of making
yours or any other ethical vegan's life more difficult. If anything, I
want to relieve you from the burden you feel and help ease some of the
guilt and responsibility you as an ethical vegan feel so strongly for
the fate of animals. Obviously, I have failed in this regard, and I
hope you can bare over with me as I hopefully improve my abilities to
express myself on these issues with greater sensibility in the future.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts and feelings on this issue.

Best, Peter
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