Vegetarianism vs Omnivoreism .... discussions btw Kichi and bennyboy

[KichigaiNeko]

While we're on the subject of suffering as a metric. Animals in the wild typically endure more pain and suffering in the process of dying in the wild than in farming. (Though this varies.) If suffering is how we measure wrong, it would seem raping a woman as a child and leaving them to live with the trauma causes more suffering than killing the child. Yet we don't apportion punishment this way, so something seems amiss. And if you're talking about the suffering endured during cultivation, then you've moved outside of the realm in which not eating meat is the only ethical way to address the issue, as it's no longer a question about killing animals, just humanely cultivating them.

Just a couple thoughts.

Thanks for the thoughtful input rasetsu.

I think what is amiss is the non-acceptance that humans are PART of this cycle and NOT APART from this cycle.

I would cite bennyboy's objections as special pleading.