In regards to eating meat

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That would be attributing a function of mind (compassion) to the physical vehicle. The body isn't capable of compassion. That's a mind function.

So then we are not our bodies? Is that what you are saying? What does that say for the cow?

Anyway, the body isn't doing it intentionally. It's how the body was designed. And we didn't design it.

Exactly. Now, did we design ourselves? If not, who?

I have wondered if maybe microbes are entities in some other octave. I bounded it off unity100 one time and he said no. But since I believe in overlapping realities, I still wonder...

Charles Wallace would say it was your farandolae.

This is getting rather absurd, dontcha think?

Right. That is the point... it is an argument ad absurdum. More solid principles for vegetarianism- of which there are many- don't result in such absurd scenarios when taken to the extreme.