In regards to eating meat

[Aaron]

Because you're OK with killing plants to eat them but you think compassion for animals requires not killing them.

I know this isn't directed at me, but...

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.

Same thing for plants.



(I know it's been said a million times before, but as much as we have discussed it, nothing has persuaded me that killing plants is more compassionate than killing animals.

Nor the thousands upon millions of bugs and weeds that are killed to cultivate plants.)

And I think that was exactly βαθμιαίος's point.

Edit: and I read Austin's post before I read yours, T