你也知道，咱们又不是山林中的野兽，这种杀生的事情可是违背天理的罪过啊。

We're not beasts in the jungle, you know. Killing animals is a terrible crime against the universe.

youdao

绝对的不杀生是不可能也是不存在的。

Absolute non-killing is non-possible and non-existent.

youdao

现在看来，马拉帕过去既是供养生命的水源地，也是扼杀生命的陷阱。

Malapa, it seems, was both a water source that gave life and a trap that snuffed it out.

youdao

This is captured in this little quote by Woody Allen.

人为什么要杀生他为了有吃的,而且不仅仅是吃的,很多情况下还得有喝的

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And that's why in Genesis 9:6 we read, "Whoever sheds the blood of man, In exchange for that man shall his blood be shed, For in the image of God was man created" 1 invoke that rationale from Genesis 1 in the absolute prohibition on murder.

因此我们会在《创世纪》第9章第6节中读到，“那些让人类流血的人，他们必须用自己的血液来偿还，因为人类是依照上帝的形象所创造“,在《创世纪》第一章中，它们便提供了逻辑根据1,杀生是绝对被禁止的。

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