[alfredtaniypnx]

Now to make something clear, unlike most vegs (who don't come from a background of Universal Compassion), I'm not squeamish about a single thing, meat, blood, pain, screaming, whatever! I could slit the throat of an animal - or a human for that matter, hey, even a human child, and chop them up. That wouldn't bother me in the least, if it were the right thing to do. Watch it, do it, both fine.

The thing is, it's almost never the right thing to do... one of the nice thing about Buddhism is you can ALWAYS find creepy stories, because Buddhists aren't shy when it comes to difficult questions.

A couple with a beautiful child are crossing a desert, they run out of food, are close to death. In order to survive, they kill and eat their beloved child.


Parable of course says something about morality; and the Buddha would say that it's okay to kill and eat another human if it's the only way to increase the number of humans who survive. You must of course choose with much care - for example having concluded that either one must die so two can live, otherwise all three will die, it is a difficult thing to decide which should die. Surely the man would die for his wife or child, and surely the mother would die for her child. Maybe they chose the child because they knew the child was a picky eater and would refuse to eat her parents, meaning that instead of one dying, two would die - the sacrificed parent and the child. Leaving a very lonely parent...

The moral of the story of course is; don't be picky about what you eat.

But do think about where it's coming from...