Was it a one-time sudden realization, a nagging feeling you couldn't get rid of, or a back-and-forth process?
For me, it was 5 or so years of back-and-forth waffling between vegan and "reducitarian/VAH" before a very strong dose of magic mushrooms a few years ago gave me a stern kick in the ass about my own ethics and hypocrisy, which is how I finally stayed vegan. The same trip was the beginning of my political radicalization left as well.
I like VCJ in theory. I got banned recently because I pointed out that finding lonely people on reddit and bullying them for that is pretty scummy though, so they can fuck off and die.
Yeah. It has this weird fundamentalist streak to it that surfaces ocassionaly. I guess this kind of hyperfocus on individual is a radlib thing.