[Buddha-l] Ethical Dilemmas

[lemmett at talk21.com]

>>Disregard the blackmail.
Hello. So if someone threatens your own life the ethical thing to do is always to ignore it? As well as being a little mad, the ethical decision is presumably not something you would do [and not just be obliged to do]. These seem like reasonable reasons to disagree with you: there is something very inelegant about meeting every threat of violence with complete disregard for your safety. Anyway I really do keep telling myself to stop emailing the list...