On 21 Mar 2009 at 9:49, [email protected] wrote: > [MP] > My basic take on life in general: if you are going to kill it, you > better > have a > *damn good* reason. > > [Krimel] > So if a roach enters my living room, I should escort it outside? If > a > mosquito buzzes near my ear I should respect its air space and move > to a > different location? How "good" is "damn good". The Jains wear gauze > masks to > avoid the chance inhalation of small bugs. Even respect for life > becomes > absurd at some point.
MP: *Damn good* is how *I* define it. I said "*my* take on life." It being *my* approach, I can define it however I want, yes? Totally subjective, totally personal, and probably appears irrational to you or others half the time. I let it guide my actions, I'm not saying it should guide yours. At times it leads me to make a judgement about the actions of others, yes. But it *never* leads me to tell others what they should do, let alone try to get them to do it by force or law unless I am asked to do so. Don't read into that statement of mine any more than that. But, if you are interested in how I approach life around me, here's my answers: - If a roach enters your living room, I would not touch it. Its not my living room and its not my roach. If you kill it, I'd empathize. - If a mosquito buzzes around your ear and you don't move to a new location, its no skin off my back; its not my mosquito or my blood. If you kill it, I'd empathize. Point is, though: What do you care if the Jains wear masks and for whatever reason? If it does not impinge on your freedom to kill the bugs what do you care what they do? MP ---- "Don't believe everything you think." Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
