Griffon64 wrote:I think people easily take anything of the "I don't do that" vein to be judgmental, and I think at least some of the blame for that touchiness lies with the fact that probably all of us have, at some point, encountered someone who was judgmental as they said that they didn't do a certain thing, even if it was back in primary school when the resident little wasp said that she didn't sleep with her teddy anymore.
But you see, tone counts. The wasp in your example says that "she" doesn't sleep with her teddy anymore, and I can just hear her snotty little tone. When I get caught in the not drinking thing, it's inevitably "do you want a drink?"... "No, thank you, not right now" (with a smile). "WHY? Don't you drink?"... "Well, not a whole lot anymore". And then they get mad. I've learned to accept a drink and just carry it around.
My mom was hoppin' mad on a family vacation a couple of years ago that I wasn't drinking with them. She said it made it uncomfortable for HER to drink. Really? I didn't say a word to them. Why can't I comfortably drink my tea and her drink her beer and have no one even care??
I dunno. People are weird.
I think this might be very close to the point, here.Maybe it is because many meat eaters, if they stop to think about it, doesn't think that they'd be able to kill an animal for food, and they feel a bit defensive about it? I'm sure there are many, many reasons.
Suuuure, Griffy. Your posts are never normally weird, uh huh.Uhm, I was going to write more, but I have to go run errands. So if the post is a little weird, blame time constraints.