Eating the meat that is obtained by killing is gross stupidity. It is the
direct opposite of the doctrine of compassion to kill the doctrine of non-killing by
eating meat and thereby encouraging others to kill. To make other people break the law
against killing life cannot be consistent with compassion.
There is no sense therefore in those
who would not themselves kill eating the meat that is necessarily obtained by killing.This
is obviously a protest against the eating of meat practised by persons professing to be
adherents of the law of non-killing, and an answer to those who argue that dietary rules
should not be mixed up with compassion of virtues of the mind. |