In regards to eating meat

[thefool]

I have plenty of specific examples with post #. Here is just a small summary- where meat eating was compared to disgusting crimes like rape (of a child) several times, meat eating being presented as soul killer, meat industry compared to slavery, meat industry as an illegal crime in future, meat eating as repulsive as eating human flesh.

Those are opinions. Are you saying that differing opinions are not valid?
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Are you suggesting that we must censor ourselves, for fear of possibly offending someone who wandered into a discussion they aren't even very interested in?

And so is calling these extreme opinions as extreme. an opinion. It is an opinion about the opinion . So yea the differing opinions are valid and I have mine...Feel free to have yours and do what you feel like with it, it is obvious from the examples above that there is no holding back. And I will continue to have mine and keep the option open to provide balance...

As I recall, we did the opposite: several of us went out of our way to say that vegetarianism isn't a prerequisite for STO harvest.

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I am sincerely just trying to understand how the killing of animals can be reconciled with the STO path.
03-23-2010, 01:18 AM (This post was last modified: 03-23-2010 02:09 AM by Bring4th_Monica.)
Post: #50
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Actually the subject of food does not interest me too much but the extremism does interest me a lot. In my opinion, extremism of any kind leads to elitism and elitism leads to STS tendencies...There are a lot of great causes in the world but you take it too far and you fall in the STS trap...Our history is full of these examples and we will repeat them it we don't learn from them. Crusaders thought they were doing great things, so did Marxists and Communists in Russia and China...But they only ended up doing great harm to both humanity and their causes...