TofuRobot
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Good point, but I don't like the fact that I pick and choose what does and doesn't die.I'm not convinced you are a troll. So I will give you some help.
You said, "I'm thinking about going vegan, but when I do something, I do it 100% or there's just no point."
Really? Well besides that fact that is a terrible strategy, it doesn't even seem possible. What a tremendous waste of time.
I mentioned bridge builders do things at 100%, but i just realized they don't. They build their bridges way over 100% because there are lots of other factors that they don't bother factoring in. You know why? Cause it's not worth their time to try and figure out all the other factors (that 100%). Its just easier and cheaper to overbuild.
Medical research is usually done up to 95%. If they are really careful they go up to 98.5%. But never any higher. It isn't cost effective. and has no discernable benefit. Law of diminishing returns and all.
When I shop for a used car I don't look at every used car in the world. I don't even look at as many as I have time for. I just shop for a reasonable amount of time.
And when I'm trying to figure out something that I don't know about. Then i ask a couple of experts. Or I read a book.
Have you ever competed at any level? Did you say to yourself, "if I can't be the best, I won't even try?" well. hopefully/probably not. You probably said, "I'm going to try my best. "
this is the same thing. You just try to do your best. Maybe you try "100%" but you don't have to get "100% results.
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You might not like it, but you should get used to it or you are going to drive yourself crazy. Your very existence involves the demise of other life forms. You can't walk across the floor/ground without stepping on something you probably can't see at least once in a while. You can't even sleep without bugs crawling in & out of your orifices (it is said that the average human swallows 52 spiders during their sleep during the course of their lifetime, on average).
Simply put, but taking your position, I can't be "100% (a literal impossibility)," I'm not going to try at all, means that you are choosing more harm than is necessary. That is your choice. How is this a better choice? How you could possibly have these facts, but throw them out the window because you cannot live fully 100% without harm, causing you to continue to do more harm than is otherwise necessary (by abandoning veganism), blows my mind.