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roughly) the layman's protection to life would be only half that afforded by the monk.
Now taking the killing of moving living beings, how much can the layman avoid ? There is killing them :
1. With determined intention, where he thinks yes, I want to kill them, and I am killing them'.
2. Killing them in household and personal matters, cooking, digging foundations, etc. The layman cannot undertake to refrain from the latter kind of killing, and so again the protection to life as compared with the monk is reduced to 4.
Another point is that the beings which are killed with determined intention may either be :
1. Innocent, or
2. Guitly so far as your interests are concerned, and the lay man cannot say he will not kill the guilty ones. A lion is guilty if he attacks you, also so is a burglar. So again the protection to life is reduced to 2.
Disregarding the guilty living beings we must now consider which of the innocent ones he can refrain froin killing. Men when they kill innocent living beings intentionally do so either :
1. Without a proper necessary cause, or 2. For a proper necessary purpose.
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