@tinytachyon i think its meant to be exploratory of individualism vs collectivism, and ambiguous, and thats fine, it's just that it feels like veganism was caught in the crossfire. it doesn't help me think straight about this that "oh dont you know that plants feel pain?" is common reactionary rhetoric

@tinytachyon its not well formed - it's just that they made them vegan then decided that was in danger of being too morally justified, so they went the extra mile to make them unable to hurt plants, and it feels kinda reactionary push them towards the unjustifiable extreme to make them seem unrelatable, lest they accidentally present the collectivism allegory as an unambiguous good and allow the audience to linger on the morality of veganism. like i said it's just me being unhinged