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Originally Posted by Quexos
Since an animal that is losing its life is not aware that it's being killed either wantonly or for a "legal" reason of eating it, I guess I am indeed equating these two situations. I believe it is our subjective moral point of view that artificially differentiate these two situations.
understand that I don't see a problem with someone being shocked at the barbaric endeavors by some sickos as described earlier in this thread, I have a problem with the lack of empathy to the mass killing of millions of animals when their death happen to "suit our needs as a society".
I agree with those calling the perpetrators of that animal beheading as "evil" but I don't think "evil" ends with them, I believe it pervades our society in a much deeper way than we care to admit. I believe we are collectively profoundly sick when we are BOTH so shocked by the killing of certain animals in certain situations like the one discussed here and lacking so much empathy when animals are killed on an industrial scale to please our culinary needs.
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I understand your position. Unfortunately I haven't been able, so far to give up meat. And dead is dead, but keeping animals in inhumane conditions prior to death is not good either.
I think WE are more apathetic or self interested than sick to be shocked, although I am pretty sure I did not indicate in any way that I was shocked.
I am not shocked, having encountered many incidents of this nature. Where I was raised it was considered great fun to kill a calf and put it in a stream to contaminate the water supply of a neighbour you weren't fond of.
Killing for food is one thing, killing for sport another. Killing for revenge at least has a clear motivation. Killing just for fun/gratification or just because you can seems a lot worse IMO. None of us is perfect or without blame, but I cannot equate cutting of an animal's head, leaving the carcass to rot with normal human behaviour much as that is lacking in morality at times. Would you want to live in the vicinity of people who do such things.
Helen