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How to navigate ethical differences in activist friendships

Our friend group started as people who all cared deeply about animal welfare, but now every gathering turns into heavy debates about who's doing enough, and we've stopped having fun together — I can't remember the last time we just enjoyed each other's company without someone feeling judged.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Shared moral purpose has calcified into moral policing, suffocating the very relationships that sustained your values.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Animal rights and our ethical relationship with nature?”

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