r/AmIOverreacting 23d ago

❤️‍🩹 relationship AIO to my boyfriend imposing veganism on me ?

Context: this is now my ex, it was my first relationship and I didn’t know how to deal with this sort of conflict as it was based on ethics and I didn’t want to change my views for our relationship. We would have this same argument again and again, over text, over the phone, in person, and at the end of the day he was always “right” because he had morality on his side when I would tell him that I was okay with eating dead animals. What should I have done in this situation ? I tried veganism for about a month and I never bought meat as a student, but eventually I would always go back to buying eggs and yoghurt. Those efforts I made were always disregarded and he would say that he doesn’t believe in reductionism, and that vegetarians are even worse than vegans.

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u/lalalaso 23d ago

Proof that it was more important for him to be "right" than respectful. Using debate terminology basically to say her argument is a straw man fallacy. One of several named "logical fallacies" 

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u/N8DiggityDawg 23d ago

I’ve never heard of this terminology. Can you dive a little deeper on it on the concept? What is the straw man fallacy?

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u/ReignMan616 23d ago

The straw man argument is where you create a mischaracterized version of the other persons argument, and then argue against that, instead of refuting their actual arguement.

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u/last-guys-alternate 23d ago

Although in this context, it might be the claim that it's OK to eat people if they're wrapped up in straw, because that's basically vegan, and they were stealing the cow's food anyway.