Anger and offence are not the same thing

MONDAY, APRIL 30, 2018
Anger and offence are not the same thing

Jenny Moxham is at it again, I see. She said that the self-confessed vegetarian Simon Ordsall is “livid”. She must have either read another letter, or dreamt it. He was nothing of the kind.

He was, however, rightly offended by Moxham’s gutter language, in using a strongly emotive word, “rape”, as a form of emotional blackmail. The words of desperation? You betcha. Eating meat is “frivolous and unnecessary”? It is nothing of the kind.
Seeing as she doesn’t do it herself, it is not her place to lecture others on what they choose to consume. She should keep her malleable statistics to herself. As for the noisy Eric Bahrt, poking his nose in again and having the cheek to call someone else a hypocrite, give me a break.
What Moxham, Bahrt and others like them need to get into their heads is that you can change the tread, but your tyre is still going on the road to nowhere. The same old message is still boring, the empty ideas are recycled eyewash. If anything it has put me off being a vegetarian. If that’s how it warps the mind of some of these folks, I’ll stay the healthy way I am thank you kindly ma’am. I don’t need any of that pesky stuff spoiling my appetite anyway.
So, well said, Mr Ordsall, and thanks for being a voice of true reason. Let’s hope the lunatics don’t take over the asylum whether they are here in Chiang Mai, or Australia. Oh, for the record, Mr Bahrt, I am certainly not a vegetarian, nor would I want to be one of that’s what it does to common sense.
Come and buy me a steak in the Red Lion. Medium rare.
Noah Zarke
Chiang Mai
 

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