And Instagram comments are a mistake.

I have engaged with this commenter who specifically went to a vegan account's post to "dunk" on vegans, and this carnist is trying so hard to use an appeal to popularity fallacy. They've used this fallacy THREE times, since their original comment has been up, and each time, I'm trying to explain to them, with examples even, why this isn't sound rhetoric. All that, and they just hit me with it again, and yes, this is serving as my clear indicator that I'm wasting my time with someone who's brain has been deep fried.

The comment was put up 4 days ago, and this carcass muncher keeps trying to embarrass himself, but he's still interacting with replies. The most recent time I'm referring to? Just a few hours ago, he responded to me, "Vegans are less than 1% of the world population but you believe you are the holy and enlightened ones.".

Listen, I understand some people are really, really, and I mean REALLY bad at rhetoric, but there is no way that you can shamelessly uphold an appeal to popularity fallacy this intensely and not have any awareness of how goofy (and not in the good way) it makes you look, especially when this has been refuted each time you pulled it.

Instagram commenters tend to be like this with a lot of things, but omnis, virtually anywhere you can find them, seem to be extra guilty of this because they need to grasp at straws to justify such abhorrent practices that I feel like they, at the very least, subconsciously know are wrong. They refuse to acknowledge the wrongness because it'd make them come off as either a hypocrite or someone who actually feels more obligated to live up to their awareness and follow through with a lifestyle they deem "inconvenient".