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[quote=Anonymous]I’m not a very religious person, but I try to maintain some spirituality with the world. Lately though this pandemic has just opened my eyes to how much suffering humans cause just by our existence.

For one, our construction and factory farming practices make it more likely that zoonotic diseases will spread again in the future. It feels like maybe the pandemic is punishment for how we treat animals. But at the same time, trying to extricate myself from the cycle of living in an agricultural society feels impractical. I do try to buy “humane” meat, but what does that label really mean and it’s such a small drop in the bucket of the entire world.

And this past year has really opened my eyes to the class differences in our world. Whether it’s in America (relying on low wage workers to go out there while the wealthy stay at home) or global (developed nations getting the bulk of the vaccine).

On a smaller scale, I am having trouble coming to grips with the harm I cause daily (e.g. setting a mouse snap trap when relocating them where I live is not practical or using a smart phone that was likely made by low wage workers). Just running the heat in my home is bad for the earth. I don’t know how/where to stop this vicious cycle of thinking, but I have to wonder if God made a mistake with our species or were we some accident of evolution? [/quote]

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