(11-18-2011, 11:21 AM)Bring4th_Aaron Wrote: Having compassion for an entity requires not killing it, because then there would be no entity to have compassion towards. "Compassionately killing" is like "fear based love". The love and compassion is there, but not in its full potential, being largely blocked/distorted.
We were discussion the conundrum that unless we eat only fruit and leaves, we're killing something -- even nuts, seeds, and grains. So my question was about why it was OK to kill plants but not animals, given that we feel compassion for both.
Edit: Austin beat me to it!