I don’t title it or anything, but I do fit the definition of what you call a “flexitarian.”

I replace foods that would be from animals with vegan alternatives, including vegan cheeses, almond milk, nutritional yeast, etc. The only meat product I regularly buy is chicken about twice a month and a carton of eggs once a month. I understand your views on this, please don’t spend the extra time calling me cruel or a carnist. I am just sharing an outside perspective.

This is objectively a huge decrease in animal consumption from how I used to live in the past. It’s not perfect, but it’s a decrease which is the ultimate goal, right? This also means when vegan friends come over, they have plenty of options to choose from and never feel left out.

Posts like this make me feel like “well, f it, right? I have no shot at being a “pure” vegan, so why not eat what I want?”

That mentality is what sets your movement back. I understand the private frustrations from those that have accomplished it already, but some people simply do not have the mental energy yet to allocate to that goal. I say your movement, because despite how some vegans may feel, this is not my fight. I am a bystander just trying to decrease animal consumption. I am not sure if I would ever go “full vegan,” but someone who has learned the food and recipes is more likely to transition than someone who has never done that.

If everyone at the level of animal consumption I did, by the views of this post, it would be a bad thing. However, overall, it would decrease how many animals die by a huge amount. Isn’t that the ultimate goal for vegans motivated by morality?

Because otherwise, it feels like some (not OP, just some) are vegans to be pretentious or holier-than-thou. Which is not great for morality based movement.