to kill or not to kill? that is the question.

[Parsons]

There is killing going on all around us, every day. We are in the density of Choice. It is our task to choose. That choice carries a lot more weight than knowingly participating in an act that isn't in alignment with our highest ideals. I do see the logic behind your idea, and I understand that you are suggesting extending love and compassion to the victim, but that can be done without actually participating in the killing.

To participate in an act that isn't in alignment with our highest ideals, because we think it is inevitable, may even have the effect of hardening one's heart to the very thing they formerly found repulsive. Kill an animal day after day and after awhile it gets easier and easier.

But that's just it, I don't distinguish that much between consuming the 'animal' level of 2D life. I just do so at a reduced rate and I thank the one infinite creator for sustaining my vehicle. I feel the same about consuming 2D 'plant' matter, however. So there is nothing going on 'out of alignment with my highest ideal'. I would like to completely forgo eating 2D matter whatsoever, but that currently isn't (reliably) possible.