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Originally Posted by juggernaut
I don't like watching videos like that. I don't know if it's real cause I did not watch it, I don't need to. I have seen some sick things people do to animals but I have also seen people do the same to each other. I don't watch any of those videos. I eat meat, I don't want to see where it comes from and I do not want to be the one to kill it. I agree with UW and anything that is killed be killed in the quickest more painless manor. But this is a hard thing to do short of walking up behind something and putting a bullet through it's head. But I think it was the buddist who said something like, anything that flinches when you raise your hand to it knows pain, thus has a knoweldge of death. This gives that being a soul and should not be killed. I think that's correct, but I don't live by it. I'm a big hypocrate when it comes to eating and clothes.
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Even the Dalai Lama has eaten a steak. Buddhists realize that we will not all follow the path, so they teach us to be mindful, thankful, and to not be glutonous to such a point that more suffering would be caused than what is necessary. I don't think you or I are hypocrites for living normal western lives. We strive for a balance. Yes, we eat meat and drive cars, but we don't go out of our way to do harm and we acknowledge that some beings will die due to us living.
A Buddhist monk was once asked if it was bad karma for he and his fellow monks to bring in a cat to rid their monstary of mice. The monk responded, "That's the cat's karma. Not mine."
