Category Archives: Question of the Week

Is Vegetarianism Flawed?

Thursday, December 3, 2009

Eating food for survival and Ahimsa pose a deep conflict that has not yet been resolved, and which needs to be resolved. “Harm,” “unnecessary killing,” and “number of senses” are fundamentally imperfect moral measurements. They can never be quantified perfectly. However, there do exist perfect moral measurements for eating. One of them is this principle of “symbiosism” that I introduce in this article: Make sure that the living organism does not die! (And make sure you are treat it well while it is alive, to foster a respectful and symbiotic relationship with the organism). This principle can be adopted very quickly by making small, but nonetheless morally significant, changes to vegetarian and vegan diets.

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Question of the Week: Challenges to Faith at Harvard

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Next week, I’m going to be a panelist at an on-campus event on “Challenges to Faith at Harvard”. The event raises the issue of the social & intellectual pressures that life at Harvard places on one’s faith. I would certainly be interested to hear all your perspectives on this in the comments.
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“Dharma, protected, protects”

Monday, October 19, 2009

I found G’s comment on the “Must Hindus believe in God?” thread very thought-provoking, and given that comments get unwieldy after a certain point, I wanted to take the time to respond to it using a full blog post.
First of all, I’m not entirely certain that  ”the larger good can probably be defined in terms of each person following [...]

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