[Buddha-l] Re: on eating meat

[Gad Horowitz]

and good acts can cause suffering too, no?



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Peavler" <jpeavler at mindspring.com>
To: "Buddhist discussion forum" <buddha-l at mailman.swcp.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 9:43 AM
Subject: Re: [Buddha-l] Re: on eating meat


> 
> 
> > Wed 19th October Jim Peavler wrote:
> >
> >> With no evil intentions at all I cannot help asking any vegetarian who
> > keeps carnivorous pets: What is better about supporting the death of
> > animals to feed your pets than doing so for your own food? Isn't the
> > effect the same?
> 
> On Oct 19, 2005, at 6:30 PM, Andrew Skilton wrote:
> 
> >
> > Your question is completely reasonable.
> 
> Thank you for your very reasonable and well-considered answer. I will 
> have to admit that my question about karma was phony since the 
> classical notion of karma doesn't make much sense to me for humans or 
> animals (although I do believe that bad acts usually cause suffering).
> 
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