"Ethically they arrived at the conclusion that man's supremacy over the lower animals meant not that the former should prey upon the latter, but that the higher should protect the lower, and that there should be mutual aid between the two as between man and man. They had also brought out the truth that man eats not for enjoyment but to live."
-Gandhi --- The story of my experiments with Truth.
The above is from some material that Gandhi was reading about being a vegetarian. Not to condemn you for eating meat (I was one of you and may become one of you someday), but man is that deep. We are on this earth and can think critically. If we are to evolve (which I believe is part of what humankind's purpose is in life) we must try to think on a higher plan.
Let me put it this way, when I think of a advance alien civilization I don't think of them as meat eating, war making, materialistic or selfish. No this is not what I think of in an advance society. So if we are to advance we must abandon the above. Since I cannot change the world and I really only (and I say this loosely) have charge of myself, I chose to try and evolve.
(It's funny I thought I had nothing to say today, but this turned out to be a rather long blog........)
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