In regards to eating meat

[Diana]

If I don't have equal compassion for animals and humans, so what? Some people have more compassion for animals than humans. That's just not me.

Again, no one is suggesting equal. Just enough to have compassion for their pain and suffering.

And I am not saying that I have no compassion for animals , because I do. But I have more compassion for humans.

Of course. So do I. But I see no reason I can't have both.

How can having more compassion for humans explain why one eats meat? Eating meat is a choice, and one can still have all the compassion in the world for humans whether one eats meat or not.

The question becomes: if one has any compassion for animals, why eat them? If one feels he/she needs to eat them, then eat the ones who are treated humanely so that they have some sort of life. None of this has anything to do with compassion for humans.

Unless one holds with Monkey's view, and sees the choice of the slaughterhouse worker as more important than the animals being tortured and inhumanely killed for meat. (Monkey, correct me please if I have misinterpreted your stance.)

Which brings me to a general request:

I would like to hear members' descriptions of what they feel compassion is, in the context of the Law of One.