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You nailed it. The problem is not WHAT you are doing or the KITTENS suffering. The problem is the WHY. That is why Jesus said that if you hate your brother you have committed murder in your heart.

The issue is not the damage to the kitten. It is the damage to the spirit of the man who burned it. The mans spirit is eternal, the kitten is not. The kitten is merely the vehicle through which this man showed poor judgement (to say the least). But this one ACT makes him no more a criminal than someone who does boil a lobster alive.

I had hinted at the lobster thing on a previous post, but no body picked it up.

The issue is not the damage to the kitten. It is the damage to the spirit of the man who burned it.

Does the fact that I killed insects when I was a child, (see post 390), mean that my soul (or spirit) is irrepairably damaged?