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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 think you are laboring under the delusion that meat eating/animals dying is inherently an evil thing.
You are more than welcome to believe wholeheartedly in this (subjective) concept, but please be aware that the world is positively filled with people who disagree.
From my perspective, the only evil thing about animal cruelty, is what it says about the person doing it.
People who do such depraved things have a sick mind, and may very well progress to more "interesting" targets, like people. Either way, they should be strictly punished.
Killing for food is a
fundamental part of nature. (Ever seen, like, most of the animal kingdom?) If done strictly for that reason, it will naturally follow that unnecessary cruelty is avoided, at least by default (people often are far more careless than should be allowed, but that is not inherent in the idea of killing animals for food).
There is nothing wrong with killing animals! There IS something deeply disturbing, and wrong, in glorying in their death!