(09-26-2014, 10:41 PM)Unbound Wrote: So what happens if Jimmy's business falls through because no one will buy and unable to make ends meet (hehe meat) he and his family end up as beggars? Would you say that they deserve that because they shouldn't have been selling meat in the first place?
When cars were invented, blacksmiths and horse carriage makers adapted. Change happens.
(09-26-2014, 10:41 PM)Unbound Wrote: My point here is that there is a ripple effect to everything and if we could just stop for a day and rearrange the whole world so that everything was better that would be great, but the fact of the matter is that it's not going to be a painless process. There will be suffering in the process of ending suffering.
Learning to grow tomatoes instead of raising cows cannot be compared to being tortured and killed.
We can't change the world overnight but this planet is really f***** up. We need to get started. Why not start with ourselves?
As a wise man once said: Be the change you want to see in the world.