[ArialAnemone]

They lost the battle when they failed to realize that having power in the real world is better than playing the game of "activist".

A meat eating shitlord legislator in Nebraska has a greater ability to put through animal welfare laws that would help a greater amount of animals than hippies trying to LARP at saving the world by the force of their moral conviction.

Moralists are the worst enemies of human cognition. They rarely think of the scope of the problem space and how inadequate their cognitive hardware is, for dealing with such a large space.