This is funny cause it's the exact opposite of what I was debating in the kitty/mircowave thread.
There I was arguing that was worse than eating animals cause fo the torture and joy taken in it.
I still stand by that.
So you probably ask me why I find this different?
I don't. But I don't do it. And I don't condone it.
I think it's terrible. I'm just saying, don't point fingers when we do the same thing with our eyes closed.
I guess if I need to draw a list from bad to not so bad (for clarification, although now getting still cause each act is obviously seperate) the questions I'd ask are this.
What was the animal used for?
In it's use did it go to waste?
Or rather did it go for benefit?
Was there respect in the killing?
Was the killing truly necessary?
I guess the big thing for me in this situation is that, the animals were killed for other animals, which made it both less wasteful and more necessary than other western practices. It's still barbaric yes. But compared to the waste that happens in our food and livestock and clothing industry, I don't see how this is that much worse.
Animals eating other animals. Yes humans are cheering and that's bad.
But it's hungry animals eating other animals. Rather than fat humans throwing away chicken mcnuggets they didn't finish, or wearing mink coats fed by baby chicks.
Animals getting fed vs humans wasting animals...
I think the spectacle is your problem, not the waste or the logic.
P.S. Blame game? This thread started the blame game. Please. I'm trying to qualify and quantify the human emotional reaction for both moral and logical reaction. I'm not throwing blame around at all. In fact I said, 'don't point fingers'.
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