(October 21, 2017 at 12:27 pm)Khemikal Wrote:(October 21, 2017 at 11:36 am)Aroura Wrote: The wheat doesn’t chose to participate..., so it is no less ne’er morally wrong to harm them.
Quote:I guess? I wondered exactly the same when I read the op. Life feeds on life. No getting around it....Most of us call that a "necessary evil", eh...and engaging in necessary evil doesn't justify some evil being thrust upon us in retribution.
I'm sympathetic to the idea of a universal or objective moral code..but if there is one...the OP hasn't even remotely approached it.
I agree, the rules are not fair. What I'm saying is that I think the Righteousness/Justice code I wrote describes the way life actually works: we must commit necessary evils; therefore, we are not living a righteous life; therefore, Justice (in the form of the law of cause and effect or karma) throughout our lives, gives us just retribution for every wrong we've ever done, even if we were not aware that enslaving other life forms (to eat them or for any other reason) was evil, for example.
Justice/fairness = equality for all life. Righteousness means fully adhering to justice. But we have been taught we are superior to other life forms and to other people, and that we have the right to use them, as chattel, to suit whatever (supposedly good) purpose we are trying to accomplish. As a result we transgress the universal laws of righteousness and justice, but we don't feel that we are doing anything wrong, and we do not know why we suffer.
What is happening is, in itself not fair to us, not right, not just. We should not put up with it. It is a sort of evil/sick game The Source/Energy/Consciousness (Whatever the universe is made of) plays. We are the players. I think we are, somehow, the rule makers too (since we are whatever the universe if made of). At some point we must decide we've had enough of this game. Some people like to stay in the game longer than others. That's OK, maybe they are winning. It's OK to stay or to leave, but I would like to make the players aware of the rules so the game is a little more enjoyable for everybody.
