The Billiken's Bluff

and what is the difference between killing someone with a bomb in order to change the world and a Buddhist who kills himself with fire in order to change the world?

i don't know

one person dies; one person dies

the terrorist and the Buddhist, i believe, both want a world in which every person is happy and free, unoppressed, equal, etc.

so i don't know

and is the life of a rich person more important than that of a poor person or that of a terrorist?

if you think hard enough, then doesn't 'important' become a meaningless word?

an arbitrarily created word?

don't the rich person and the poor person and the terrorist all want to avoid suffering and get at happiness?

aren't all live things in the world the same in that all that is desired is to avoid suffering and get at happiness?