Toward Non-Violent Living
Sir, —For L. J. Schwartz: he stopped eating killed animals about 60 years ago, all animal products about 30 years ago and all vegetables for one day in the week about five years ago. “He goes against his own principles," says “A.M.” “He does something that is right and wrong at the same time.” I agree; but 1 think that “A.M.,” like “Wondering,” forgets that we are living not in a static but a kinetic world. In our world of flux and change in which, movement and growth are all-important, the correct way to utter a moral judgment is not. “This man is good or bad” (separating the goodness and the badness into two unconnected logical abstractions), but, “This man is becoming better or worse; yesterday he was 10 per cent, good and <0 per cent bad; today he is 20 per cent, good and only 80 per cent, bad.”—Yours, etc., N. M. BELL. July 31, 1959. [This correspondence is now closed.—Ed., “The Press.”]
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28963, 3 August 1959, Page 3
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