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- In my life I have never, I don’t think, met a Jain. I was in a Jain temple once in India — it was covered in mirrors, which I found very interesting and impressive. I took a course once on Jainism, in which the teacher was careful to emphasize that, in Jainism, like in all religions, a great deal of ingenuity over the millennia has gone into finding the loopholes, seeing how the strict non-negotiable tenets of Jainism can be made compatible with the facts of our human existence, with our inability to, for stance, draw a breath or take a step without, on the microbial level, causing a holocaust of harm.