Why some people can feel differently?

Question

Some of us feel disturbed when they see a dead corpse or when they see the carcass of an animal like a dog or a cat. Some of them are also so disturbed that they refused to go near them.Yet, these same people will not feel the least perturbed when they see animals that had been slaughtered for the tables. Animals such as chicken, ducks, cows, ram, etc.

The other day, I had taken a lady friend to the abbattior for some business. I know this lady as someone who is very sensitive to the sight of dead bodies. She would shudder when she saw a dead cat or news clips of dead people on TV.

Yet, when we walked into a room where cows were slaughtered, she was not the least disturbed. This is in spite of the fact there was a large cow that was hung up right in front of us and it is dripping with blood.

When I asked her could she take the sight, she replied"It's okay, it's only food."

Why is it some people can react so differently under different circumstances?

Answer 1

Perhaps the thought of human death scares her more than merely the death of an animal. The lady friend has perhaps considered the origin of her food and is comfortable with the controlled slaughter of animals to provide this. Human death however, especially unnatural death carries with it much emotional attachment. The same is true with the dead cat - perhaps she feels an emotional attachments to cats.

Answer 2

yes it is a mystery why people's sensitivities vary so much. I recall being greatly puzzled by a friend who was a vegetarian. It was in the "getting to know you" phase of the friendship and I was really interested in vegetarianism and looked up to her for her integrity and moral stance about the killing of animals.
One day in my house there was a large, irritating bluebottle buzzing about the kitchen. She actually cried when I went to use fly spray and insisted I allow her to "rescue" the fly. You can imagine the pantomime! 40 mins and much laughter later, said fly was deposited outside the house.
I was charmed by what I saw, as her overall concern for God's little creatures. Later in the relationship I was to hear her argue vehemently for a woman's right to terminate a pregnancy. I must admit I found it really hard to reconcile this disrespect for human life with her views on other animals. However hard I tried I could not get her to see the irony of this situation. Flies, likely to have dined on dog dirt and attempting to pollute your kitchen are to be rescued at all costs........ human foetuses on the other hand ? Sorry this is not really an answer...... just a reflection on the mystery of the paradoxical nature of people!

Answer 3

I think alot of people are sensitive to dead cats & dogs because they are familiar with the loving side of these creatures. These animals have been domesticated & we tend to consider them a part of the family when we have them as pets. Unless one grows up on a farm, the closest experience they have with a cow or a chicken is seeing it on their dinner plate.

Answer 4

We take in information through our senses (eyes, ears, nose,etc). These physical information will next be interpreted by our brain as objects (cars, sound of my voice, smell of burgers, etc) --this is called perception (physical perception, if you prefer).

This is what empirists generally call experiences and we store them in memory. Within a critical time, each individual will have different sets of memory contents. This experiences contribute greatly to deciding which response we make in responding stimuli: questions we ask, decisions we make, emotions we feel, etc.

There is another group of scientists who believe in the nativity principle, which means we are born with default knowledge and responses to start with, which means we will have universal responses --from rejecting eating foods that smell bad to having generally the same opinion in deciding whether a girl is pretty or not. People who response distinctively different are said to have been designed genetically different (anomalous).

I guess.

Answer 5

It's because cats and dogs and other pets are just that - pets, but animals such as cows are food. That is the difference - ones we love and ones we eat.

Answer 6

I think it's how you're brought up into your adult life. Dead things arn't scary. A bit gorey yes, but there's a difference between a slab of meat and a scene of a traffic accident. We relate more to small animals and people as we're so close to them in life it's unpleasant to see them like that.

Answer 7

i have been recent even as someone of a similar gender change into flirting with my boyfriend and to be honest i got here across it quite exciting. I imagine for most adult men it will be diverse because they ought to total '2 women' fantasy happening. I have surely requested my boyfriend a similar question to this and he bluntly replied that dishonest is dishonest, wether that's with a male or a lady and he doesn't ignore the very reality i change into dishonest merely because it change into with yet another lady.

Answer 8

Perceptions my dear, everyone have different kind of perceptions. It is a process of giving meaning towards something and it always affected by experiences.

Another point is variation my dear. It's more on genetics. This is the uniqueness of the God's creation that we couldn't do that although through cloning.

Answer 9

i think in the case of u friend its because she knew the purpose of the dead cows was for food so she knew the reason and was comfortable with it. when we see animals on the roadsisde or whatever and especially if they are the furry kind we tend to think that its totally cruel for anything fluffy to be killed whether purposely or not.

Answer 10

because we see dead cows all the time hanging from the back of butchers wagons and we are told from a small age that it is food so we are conditioned whereas the other stuff you talked about is unusual