(05-09-2015, 02:45 PM)Diana Wrote:(05-09-2015, 02:31 PM)Minyatur Wrote: I consume meat simply because the "blood sacrifice" is already made and I don't think there is value in me abstaining from doing it. My sole consumption won't impact the market so whether I consume meat or not, the same amount of sufferings will occur.
This is where I think you are woefully deluding yourself. You are not exempt from the whole. Your part is not somehow different from the other parts. As I said before, 1+1+1+1+1....= whatever the total is. You cannot escape the math. You are not special; your participation matters just as much as the next person. Conversely, if no one participated, there would be no demand for it and it would cease to continue. Your "1" matters there just as much.
I do not think they calculate things up to one very irregular consumer. I also said I think not it is wrong in itself and that it is a needed experience of manyness which is why I don't mind participing in it. Out of the participation thing, I would not create this reality solely to eat meat.
It is part of my negative polarity just as I have many things which are part of my positive polarity. This world is not just one of them, this world is both polarities.