I didn't say what I think you or some other person should do, Bill. Others must decide for themselves what they should do, and I trust that they will.

I'm not stating a rule or an admonition for others to follow.

I merely stated how I personally feel about the matter, giving it fair consideration. I much prefer not to kill or harm other sentient creatures if I can possibly help it, because I empathize with their suffering. I consider what that would feel like if someone did it to me. Like everyone else, I must think for myself upon this matter...not for you or the man next to me.

As I said in my final sentence in the post which I think you're probably referring to:

Everyone has to decide for themselves about these things. No one has the final answer for everyone else, but only for themselves.


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I'll add one thing to that. A lot of people in this world don't want the heavy responsibility of deciding weighty moral issues for themselves. They prefer to have a government decide. Or a court decide. Or a church decide. Or a bureaucrat. Or a president. Or an Ayatollah. Or a gang leader. Or a military commander. Or their mother. Anyone else will do!

That way the pressure's off them, they don't have to think about it, and they can just follow orders obediently and tell themselves "It's okay".

Such people make good followers, good executioners, good guards, good torturers, good soldiers, good killers, and good slaughterhouse managers.

I do not admire them for so doing. They are NOT free men, because they've given their freedom away for the meagre reward of an illusory form of "safety".