Re: Taking lives as a good thing?
I generally agree with what you have said Jundo but two points I think need to be clarified.
1) I wasn't talking hypotheticals in my post. I was showing how hypotheticals have led to unecessary violence which my actual real world experience has shown to be untrue, or at the very least much less than universally applicable and appropriate.
2) The point I made about the Buddha saying there has to be an intention to kill. This means there must be a being, a means to kill that being settled upon and an intention to do that. Whatever situation I am in I can avoid that. In the situations I have been in, and any future ones, I will not hold an intention to kill anyone. That is my vow and it is realisable.
Rich
I generally agree with what you have said Jundo but two points I think need to be clarified.
1) I wasn't talking hypotheticals in my post. I was showing how hypotheticals have led to unecessary violence which my actual real world experience has shown to be untrue, or at the very least much less than universally applicable and appropriate.
2) The point I made about the Buddha saying there has to be an intention to kill. This means there must be a being, a means to kill that being settled upon and an intention to do that. Whatever situation I am in I can avoid that. In the situations I have been in, and any future ones, I will not hold an intention to kill anyone. That is my vow and it is realisable.
Rich
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