I find it important to take responsibility for ones actions – or lack of such – even when that means shying away from all the “shoud-do’s”. Sometimes, when I talk about not eating meat from the meat industry, I get the respones such as: “Oh, I could never do that!” or “I could never manage without my Christmas turkey!”. Saying “I could not” takes away the personal responsibility, because if something is impossible to you, it’s not your fault, right?
To say “I choose to eat meat” is fair enough. That’s being honest. My point here is not that everyone should choose to not eat meat, but that people are aware that it actually is a choice – a choice you and I make every time we go into the grocey store and decide whether we are buying the chicken or not.
The same goes for mostly everything else in life, as I see it. Of course, we all have our boundaries, whether they be physical or mental. Some boundries are things we really can’t do anything about, and some boundaries can be pushed over time. And it is ok to not push them – as long as everyone is aware that we choose not to do so.
This is a rather demanding way of living, as that means that everything I do – or don’t do – is according to my own choice, and I can’t blame that on anyone else than myself.
