Re: Guns n' stuff
Thor Cameron (my_colours@hotmail.com)
Tue, 11 May 1999 17:30:44 -0700 (PDT)
>>do you realize how many lives you take each day? it doesn't matter
>whether
>>it's a human life or a cow's life or a wheat stalks life. even a
>mushrooms
>>life. you kill every single day. it's the great wheel and who knows if
>you
>>ever get off. our boy jd probably has very interesting opinions on the
>>subject.
>
>Well, that's a pretty narrow thing to say, you know. For a start, I'm a
>vegetarian. For another thing, I have not intentionally killed any living
>thing since about 1991 when I began to get interested in Buddhism. Also,
>intentionally killing something and killing something by accident is an
>entirely, entirely different proposition - as is the difference between
>killing a wheat stalk (which if you reap it you aren't really doing anyway
>as the core plant grows on) So no, I don't agree with you. I don't think
>it's our right to kill and it's a thing we must do only out of absolute
>necessity. I have never found it necessary to kill a human, nor to have the
>means to do so.
>
Um, OK, Cam, but I've also been a vegetarian for nigh on 10 years. Still, I
hit bugs with my car, and eat plants that I DO kill, or pay someone to, like
tubers and other vegetables where the edible part is an integral part of the
plant. Still, I do the best that I can, don't wear leather, buy
animal-tested products, etc. But I do kill. Flora and fauna. I do the
best I can. My hypocracy only goes so far.
Thor
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