{"id":5851,"date":"2010-04-22T22:53:29","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T14:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=5851"},"modified":"2010-04-22T22:53:29","modified_gmt":"2010-04-22T14:53:29","slug":"is-vegetarianism-arbitrary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2010\/04\/is-vegetarianism-arbitrary\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Vegetarianism Arbitrary?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5852\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/137.jpg?resize=68%2C126\" alt=\"\" width=\"68\" height=\"126\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/137.jpg?w=68&amp;ssl=1 68w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/137.jpg?resize=52%2C96&amp;ssl=1 52w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 68px) 100vw, 68px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Eating a vegetarian dinner at a restaurant,<br \/>\nit was surprising to hear almost everyone at the table<br \/>\nspeaking about the arbitrariness of vegetarianism.<\/p>\n<p>If vegetarianism doesn&#8217;t matter at all,<br \/>\nwhy are we Buddhists here, eating what we are,<br \/>\ninstead of devouring flesh elsewhere?<\/p>\n<p>I asked this,<br \/>\nbut there was no reply,<br \/>\nbefore the subject changed.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><br \/>\nIf we all already know, deep down,<br \/>\nthat vegetarianism is on higher moral ground,<br \/>\nwhy think it is arbitrary, especially for the animals?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eating a vegetarian dinner at a restaurant, it was surprising to hear almost everyone at the table speaking about the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[156],"class_list":["post-5851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veganism","tag-veganism-vegetarianism","wpcat-74-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}