In regards to eating meat

[Diana]

I fully understand "intent", it was just past arguments that attempted to combine walking and breathing with destroying, used as justification on a larger scale. While I can jump up and down on a microbe and never touch it, my intent can harm it instantly.

Much different than having life on our own scale ended and trying to explain that we had good intent so no harm was done.

I agree. Equating microbes with cows is giving me the swirlies.