Theos-Talk Archives (November 2003 Message tt00075)

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, Bart Lidofsky <bartl@s...> wrote:
> There were rules against cruelty to animals before you kill them, 
and 
> killing them in the most humane way possible.

There was also an argument about whether or not one had to be 
vegetarian to be spiritual. That argument is not new as you assume.

> Ah, taking the Noam Chomsky track of conveniently leaving out that 
the 
> people he was killing were trying very hard to kill or enslave him 
and 
> his people...

Mope. Just wondering aloud if the fellow who came up with the 
admonition against killing was a reformer. I believe he was.

> Can you say SELF DEFENSE? Or do you believe that people do not have 
> that basic right? Or is it just people you don't like who don't 
have 
> that basic right?

You are making the erroneous assumption that people in an ancient and 
barbarous age had the same values as you have in this modern and 
barbarous age.