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Originally posted by halfoldman
reply to post by smithjustinb
I found it a very nice and hopeful post.
However I'm a bit confused about the animals.
For example, you mention pigs, many of whom are kept in factory farms.
Apart from the karmic blow-back of diseases that could spread to humans by keeping animals in those conditions, or clearing vast tracts of lands to feed animals for a small amount of meat, what will happen when we communicate with animals?
What do you think pigs in factory farms would say to us?
Do you think they would tell us how much they love us?
Do you think they'd buy the argument that their suffering and death for bacon doesn't matter, because "the earth will keep moving"?
I don't think so.
They'd tell you how much they hate your guts for what is being done to them.
edit on 20-9-2012 by halfoldman because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by smithjustinb
"It's not all about me". There's absolutely no other way to love, other than to squash the ego.
Originally posted by arpgme
reply to post by smithjustinb
You said that it is love because it doesn't matter if you die? Doesn't that mean apathy?
It doesn't matter if an animal is tortured and killed crying leaving its young helpless and it doesn't matter if it happens to you? And this is what you call love?
I would call this "reality", or "nature" but I certainly wouldn't call this "love". Love is compassion and if nature will just kill without caring about the other's feelings then that is a lack of compassion.