09-14-2015, 12:40 PM
(09-14-2015, 11:29 AM)Jade Wrote: For me, it's not the deaths I have a problem with, per se. It's the unconscious participation and the prolongation of torture and environmental destruction over an extended period of time.
I understand your point but that's a slippery slope. Is murder of humans ok to indulge in willy-nilly as long as they weren't tortured first?
For me, it's not even about whether they were tortured first or not. It's about this idea, so common in New Age communities, that it's somehow ok to actually participate in harming others. I get that these things happen, and on a soul level they chose it, etc. but the question to me is: Yes, I understand that a serial killer tortured, raped and killed 30 women, and I understand that, on a soul level, they're doing some kind of karmic dance, but is it in alignment with my spiritual path to participate in that?
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