RE: Jainism
July 19, 2020 at 12:02 am
(This post was last modified: July 19, 2020 at 12:04 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(July 17, 2020 at 1:37 pm)Porcupine Wrote:Negatron. Ahimsa is not non violence in the sense that you're thinking of, and as a doctrine was formed by their historic interactions with other cultures. Killing enemies in combat is a-okay with ahimsa. Just as it's a-okay with our own non-violence™. Jain monarchs and soldiers weren't doing jainism wrong.
(July 17, 2020 at 9:46 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Ultimately, jain princes and societies acted just like any other, regardless of what their magic books told them to do.
Then they weren't practicing Jainism. The fundamental rule in Jainism is "Don't be violent" ... so when a person who self-identifies as a Jain ends up being violent ... it's because they're human and humans can be violent. There's nothing in Jainism that says "Sometimes it's okay to be violent." Even self-defense is said to hurt oneself and be a bad thing, in Jainism.
So, yes. Their magic book told them to do something and they failed to do it. So, silly or not, magic or not, they still were failing to practice Jainism while they were being violent.
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