Jain ahimsa is the most thoroughgoing non-violence any tradition has produced, because Jain metaphysics gives souls to plants, water, fire, air, and earth as well as to animals. The result is a graded practice rather than an achievable purity: monastics sweep the path before them and strain water, laypeople avoid root vegetables because harvesting kills the whole plant and the organisms around it, and everyone accepts that living at all does some harm. The goal is minimization pursued seriously, not innocence claimed.