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Their children, parents and even the ordained ascetics up to the tenth stage of spiritual development commit some sin or the other. Therefore to bring up the children to serve the parents and to give the charity of food, clothes, pots, medicine, etc., to the ascetics would all amount to sinning and would be counted as adharma or irreligious. In other words we can say that anyone that saves us from some dangerous situation is also a sinner. Like this, to all acts of mercy, charity and service would amount to sinning and to serve the ill, to give food to the hungry would be all counted as sin and would be considered as abandonable.
Adherence to this belief would result in the disappearance of all acts of dharma in the form of mercy, charity, etc.,. There would be frightful violence and cruelty on all sides and it would be difficult for any creature to live peacefully. So much so that even to expect someone to help us would also amount to encouraging him to perform sinful activities, which would at best be inhuman and demonical. How surprising it is that someone sins, and someone else bears the result for his sin without sinning at all. It is like someone commits murder and someone else is hanged for it. Such a belief is not only against the principles of karma theory and canonical dictates but it is also against all principles of natural justice and jurisprudence and, therefore, abandonable.
The result of the act of saving any creature is the saving and living of that creature. Therefore, those who say that to save a creature is a sin, it is enough to say that according to their precepts the living of any creatures including themselves is a sin. Therefore, those that consider saving or protecting any creatures as sin, have no right to live themselves. To consider saving a dying creature by giving food, water and to try to mitigate its pain as sin and abandonable, is against all principles of humanity, practical commonsense and wisdom and has no place in the human life.
The abovementioned belief is also unsubstantial because one that saves someone has no intention that the saved person should indulge in sinful activities of violence, lying, stealing, exploitation, etc., and should
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