This feeling of injustice is something I have often heard from my patients during therapy. It is, in fact, what prompts them to file complaints, based on a misunderstanding: the illusion that human justice has the power to heal this wound, the nature of which it is wise to examine in depth.

The rejection of tyranny is the founding myth of democracy. Tyranny is the arbitrary power of a single man, driven by his impulses and his temptation to enslave others, by practicing an unjust policy.

In antiquity, the Platonic philosopher Plutarch had already launched a major indictment against meat-eaters. He believed that eating meat was a matter of culinary pleasure, not a necessity for survival: as omnivores, humans can nourish themselves as they see fit. In De esu carnium, Plutarch states: "We have no reason to kill in order to eat."