Message #18147

[mccoy]

Laila, first of all, it is definitely true that animals are above plants in the evolutionary scale. As it is true that some animals are more evolved than Others, and that some humans are more evolved than Others.

But that just sounds like a fake, even Dangerous  argument. If I should inflict 'suffering', in a general context to the less evolved souls, then, if faced with the possibility to inflict pain or Death to a primitive native of an African tribe just out of the paleolithic and to a Citizen of the USA with a phD, I should choose the primitive African.

This because:

1) He's very likely in the first stages of human reincarnation, so by definition he's less evolved, spiritually, mentally, socially.
2)He's much less sensitive to pain than the civilized American with a Ph.D. I'm speaking from a little personal knowledge here, I was interested in anthropology in my Youth and I personally met the tribes of the highlands in Papua New Guinea. Just out of the paleolithic.

So, by the same your reasonings, the life of a primitive man is less Worth than the life of a civilized man and, taken to the extreme, slave trade was justified because it entailed a sacrifice of the less evolved Africans to benefit the more evolved westerners.

Fact is that, by the same token you say lactarians partake of the cruelty inflicted to cows, I can say that vegans partake to the cruelty inflicted to plants. Of course lactarians accumulate  more sins (cows+plants) than vegans, but then it is a quantitative reasoning, not a qualitative one. Not to say that eating sprouts to me feels like eating babies. I had this very definite insight once, when I was eating sprouted corns. I was suddenly put in tune with their very elementary consciousness and I was able to connect their state to newborn babies. I've never eaten sprouts since then.

Who eats sprouts, conceptually is a baby killer. As I, who drink milk, partake to the Killing of redundant baby calves. Only I don't see the calves, whereas I see the baby sprouts when eating them.

Lactarians and vegans partake of the same sins.