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Originally Posted by Jozrael
I don't consider killing dogs, cats, parakeets, cows, pigs, horses, etc. murder.
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I'll assume suffering aside. Shall I also assume you feel these "things" don't know terror and have no particular wish to live? And these animals have the intelligence of small children. Does that account for nothing?
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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