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My best friend for 50 years, from first grade until her death, was a Jain. She was the kindest, gentlest person I ever knew. She cried when I killed a mosquito. She always thought we Sikhs were slightly uncivilised, but she was very nice about it, never insulting. Pacifist can be civil. A short, slightly OT story: For all her deeply-rooted pacifism, when I came back from Delhi 1984 after my nuclear family and brothers and cousins being killed, when she learned that I had killed the murderer of my son, she said, "I wouldn't have done that," and then, under her breath, "because I wouldn't have known how."
My best friend for 50 years, from first grade until her death, was a Jain. She was the kindest, gentlest person I ever knew. She cried when I killed a mosquito. She always thought we Sikhs were slightly uncivilised, but she was very nice about it, never insulting. Pacifist can be civil.
A short, slightly OT story: For all her deeply-rooted pacifism, when I came back from Delhi 1984 after my nuclear family and brothers and cousins being killed, when she learned that I had killed the murderer of my son, she said, "I wouldn't have done that," and then, under her breath, "because I wouldn't have known how."
