(02-18-2015, 08:44 AM)Shemaya Wrote: I know many people who are very compassionate who eat meat, who would say it is not morally wrong. Carla for example. To think that eating meat is a litmus test for how open a persons heart is, is just wrong and a biased judgement.
Your second statement is not true, it is just what you believe. Many ethical and moral and spiritual people eat meat and for them brutality, rape , murder etc. is morally wrong.
I know this really bothers you Monica, but it is just how it is right now. You cannot change it, but there are many things you can do that will foster people seeing your vision and move human evolution forward.
Shemaya, do you know what cognitive dissonance is?
The heart may be open (towards humans) and the person overall compassionate, yet have a blind spot in this area. If they cannot feel compassion towards our younger other-selves, then that is a blockage, just as surely as a white person feeling compassion for other whites, but not for black people, is a blockage. It's selective compassion.
Racism, sexism, speciesism...they are similar isms.
If they think that brutality, murder, and rape are wrong, yet continue to eat meat, then they are in denial, because eating meat causes brutality, murder and rape. Even drinking milk does also. The cows are literally raped, on a regular basis.
In this age of the internet, they can no longer feign ignorance.
Such 'ethical and moral and spiritual people' are choosing to close their minds to what it really is that they are supporting. This is often a subconscious choice, but a choice nonetheless. If they didn't, they wouldn't be able to support those things.