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Old 09-10-2003, 01:42 AM   #123
quzah
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Originally posted by LUVBUGZ
New version: So, if killing the cow is simply releasing the soul and not "harming" it, then why would it NOT be OK for me to kill a person and say well I was simply liberating their soul?
Well spoken. That's exactly the point I was attempting to make. If everything has a soul, then the only difference in killing a person versus a mosquito is the value attached to the person versus the value attached to the mosquito.

Thus, if I don't value you at all, it there should be no penalty for me killing you. I mean really, that's exactly what people do every day. You assign a lesser value to indirectly killing a ___ and eating its 'product' than you do 'suffering' the inconvenience of going without.

Quzah.
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