Hi, NT. I was starting to wonder how long you could stay away from a discussion on religion and politics.
People start smoking, and fail to stop, because they are weak-willed (as well as being stupid).
With regards to souls, and playing Devil's Advocate {nods to Murph}, it hasn't been proved that they exist. Isn't it sort of hard to demonstrate when something that may not even exist arrives? Oh, and if destroying the container for a soul is wrong, then what is your position on capital punishment? Self-defense? Or if we really want to have fun, how about the rulings of Sharia courts in Nigeria that two women are to be stoned to death for having unmarried sex? (BTW, the men these women admitted to having sex with, one of the women being *pregnant* by her companion, were acquitted due to "lack of evidence". Barbaric, simply barbaric.)