Can Killing a Living Being Ever Be an Act of Compassion?:
The Act of Killing in the Abhidhamma and Pali Commentaries

By Rupert Gethin

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If you can intentionally kill out of compassion, then fine, go ahead. But are you sure? Are you sure that what you think are friendliness and compassion are really friendliness and compassion? Are you sure that some subtle aversion and delusion have not surfaced in the mind?

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Published in 2004 in The Journal of Buddhist Ethics.

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    volume=11,
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