 Courageous but inconsistent
First of all, bravo on having the guts to post this, it is no doubt going to be an unpopular post. I feel the same way about it, to be honest. And what's more, I feel that I know EXACTLY why this manifested, to me it is directly related to a large amount of conflict within my life in the past week.
HOWEVER, I do think that you need to be more consistent about how you apply these principles. When I scarf down a chicken limb, it doesn't register with me as manifesting violence, it just is. Same with what happened at VA Tech. I don't know if it was intentional, but your post makes it sound like animal suffering registers more with you than human suffering. Maybe it does, I don't know. Maybe it's the inverse of how I feel about the two situations. Maybe I see the shooting as the manifestation of my inner violence, while you see someone visiting KFC as the manifestation of your inner violence. Objectively that doesn't make a whole lot of sense, but subjectively I really can't argue with it. |