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Originally Posted by Cowperson
There's a reason dog-fighting of the Michael Vick variety is generally culturally unacceptable around here.
Cowperson
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This is exactly the point: it's about culture. There's lot of people in here with the whole holier-than-thou attitude criticizing China for enjoying this, but you have to recognize that they have a different perspective than us "civilized" north americans.
Even in their view of an animals life; alot of mainland chinese people would have no problem breaking a chicken's neck with their bare hands, but compare that to here. For them life & death is an accepted way of life, and being at the top of the food chain you have certain advantages. Killing a goat with your own hands, or sending it to its death via the lions, really isnt that different to the Chinese. I've seen my (chinese) grandmother throw a live chicken into boiling water without a second thought, because the North American notions of "humaneness" don't exist to her. It's wrong to us, because our culture says it is. It's not wrong to them for exactly the same reason.
Animals being killed for entertainment purposes has been around for millenia, and persists today in other forms like bull fighting. Not to mention it is a spectrum of animal cruelty that doesnt require death, and our own Calgary stampede activities would fit in there nicely.
And I'm sorry but you can't equate this to genocide in Sudan. Human lives >>> animal lives. Ask the United Nations the last time they intervened for your perceived notions of animal cruelty.
I'm not saying I support this (I do not), but I am saying that it's not as black and white as many of you make it out to be.
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