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Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos
If this kind of thing isn't happening in our society today, then it was not too long ago.
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. . . . . . as my Big Book Of Tortures reminds me on many an occasion. (Nasty stuff in there, most of it a spectator sport and a place to bring the kids out to remind them of the perils of wickedness.)
Sure those Chinese can build skyscrapers and copy all kinds of computer gizmo's, but can they NOT throw goats over walls to the lions to entertain their children?
Apparently not.
I don't know if I would go throwing too many stones there round-eye...What about cultures that condone Bullfighting, Rodeo (calf ropin), Industrialized farming etc...
I took the picture below at the High River stampede last year . . . . . the moment when the left lead horse dropped dead from a heart attack at the finish line.
Now, I'm pretty sure the jockey didn't set out to kill his animal for the entertainment of the crowd, even if he had to know there's an outside chance of something like that happening, and I honestly don't think the spectators came to the chucks deliberately hoping they'd see an accident where a horse would die in front of them.
I'm not defending rodeo or wagon racing, but . . . . quite a different cultural leap between that and throwing sheep over a wall to the lions for the entertainment of kiddies.
And I'm pretty sure tickets aren't sold for "industrialized farming."
There's a reason dog-fighting of the Michael Vick variety is generally culturally unacceptable around here.
I don't see the big deal. It's a different culture in China. We might not agree with with it but it's none of our business to start with.
That kind of reasoning could extend to just about anything, including the slaughter in Darfur.
Cowperson