Zen tao and crazy wisdom?

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Your talking to mostly Americans here
shooting them in the leg
might be more their style

Traditional Buddhist communities eat meat fairly much most days, in contrast to western Buddhists who tend to be vegetarian or vegan. Aucklands Chinatown's has vegetarian only outlets but they are very few. The wat[temple] I stayed at in Surathanni had outdoor fish farms full of large goldfish, tended by local villagers. It was almost a factory farm intensity and volume of fish harvested

In the leg where? In the knee or instance?
Or even maybe in the shoulder, far from the leg?
Far from the third eye, far from the heart, far from the belly?

So many places to shoot without killing.

Or else, when it was possible to shoot movies in America instead of real bullets:

The vegetarian debate is a difficult one, but I'm not interested in debating it. In the buddhist forum i frequent, there's a topic about vegetarianism (if it's acording to buddhist teachings or not) that has more than 100 pages, each with 20 posts.

I declare myself omniver, but I recognise that being vegetarian is a more virtuous choice, both for the animals and for the planet.

Ditto that; however as the years pass I feel more compassion and empathy towards animals and feel less inclined to eat them. I always used to like fried chicken but since keeping a few hens (for eggs) and getting to know them and their behaviour and personalities it is putting me off eating chicken. I certainly couldn't eat my hens at the end of their laying life (around three years). I sometimes sit outside and talk to them and they chuckle back to me, fussing around my feet. Sometimes they jump onto my knee and watch my face while I talk to them. I see them as fellow living conscious beings now rather than meat.

I would take that to mean if you fire it with compassion you would not fire it cause you know you would be killing someone else and not have compassion.

Anger may in time change to gladness but the dead can never be brought back to life. sun tzu

(bad quotes fixed by TallyMan)

Anger is one letter short of damager
danger