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The difference between you and a vegetarian is that if I go to your house and you serve fish, I will not eat it, regardless of what else there is to eat. I am a vegetarian, while you are not.

And if you have a friend who's vegetarian and coming over for dinner, there is no need to ask them what does that mean. It's a very simple definition! A vegetarian doesn't eat fish. [/quote]

Except that there are plenty of people who call themselves vegetarians and eat fish. Now, you may say that these people are not really vegetarians. But there is no way to know, without asking, if a person is a fake (fish-eating) "vegetarian" or a real (non-fish-eating) vegetarian.

Which is one reason why I ask everybody who comes over to eat the same question: Is there anything you don't eat?[/quote]

Of course, it's polite to ask that question and it's fine to do so. But if someone answers, "Yes, I'm a vegetarian", [b]then you have your answer[/b].  And please don't think that vegetarian = someone who eats fish, because it doesn't![/quote]

No, I don't. Different people have different definitions of "vegetarian". Even different people who call themselves "vegetarian" have different definitions of "vegetarian". You may believe that yours is the single, true, accurate definition, but other people aren't cooperating with you.[/quote]

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