reply to post by schrodingers dog
I understand
I haven't killed a bug since I was 11 - not on purpose - unfortunately some have suffered horribly in spite of my best intentions - by my trying to
save them
I became a vegetarian - finally - after years of thinking about it - as someone else just mentioned - I saw something I couldn't unsee - and that was
that
I wasn't allowed to watch certain kinds of films when I was young - because I had such horrible reactions to them - fiction or nonfiction
when I was a kid - the environmental movement was just really getting started, and PBS was always showing us how the elephants were being slaughtered,
the tigers were being slaughtered, the whales were being slaughtered...so I was forbidden to watch PBS
I remember one program where they had immobilized monkeys, sliced open the skulls and started poking around to see what kind of reactions they could
get
I hate the humans
I don't really - but you can see how I could
I walked out of a class once in elementary because we were watching a movie about slaughtering caribou - the teacher was furious - but I told her
she'd have to drag me back into the room - so she let me sit in the hall
then of course there was war - and all the famines
and the Manson family
maybe some people just don't have the ability to
not imagine how others feel - not just empathy - but that ability to block out certain
things
in my heart and in my mind I consider myself a pacifist - always - it will always be my first choice
but instinct is something else - and so that invisible force you're talking about isn't something I understand first hand
when I was a kid - if someone came at me - I beat the bejeesus out of them - boys or girls
I was in big trouble more than a few times - because "girls don't fight"
but - they started it :-)
so I do understand about most of it - but you must have a special gift when it comes to pacifism SD - you actually cannot harm
was just Ghandi's birthday too - seems fitting