In regards to eating meat

[Monica]

We do kill humans. All the time. And if we want to serve others, we need to accept those that kill humans. That's all I'm saying.

Yes, I remember. My understanding of what you told us, is that you think "we should never stop someone from hurting another...we should just 'accept' the murderer about to kill that child, and if we stop the murderer, we are being STS." I remember your views, Monkey.

I can see that, given your views, you find nothing wrong with allowing cruelty to animals. Since you are ok with allowing cruelty to humans, then cruelty to animals is no big deal.

Please feel free to correct me if I am misunderstanding you. That is what I got from what you have said in other discussions.

I don't personally. It is against the law. Just like I don't shoot deer at night with a spotlight. Again, against the law. If eating meat were against the law, I wouldn't eat it.

So are you saying you simply do whatever the law tells you to do? With no sense of personal responsibility? What if the law is wrong?

Either way though, looking down on others isn't very compassionate.

You perceive a discussion about eating animals being incompatible with the STO path, as "looking down on others"?