If we kill a hen,we used to say that is chiken.If we kill any man then we called as murder how long this true?

Question

we r killing more animals like ants,goats,hens,,,,,,,, etc....
then we are thinking more about justice,corruption,,
I have to know are these wrong things compare to killing a animal

Answer 1

Survival of the fittest. Basic philosophy and psychology.

Answer 2

Very good point. No matter how we justify it, taking of lives are not moral as the act adds to the suffering of conscious beings. Even if done painlessly or with prayers, slaughtering an animal or even a plant for food is not moral if we get down to the fundamental logic of things.

Having said that, we still do it because we do not usually think about the process, that food is provided for us thru killing. Also, we seem to be able to justify the fact animals are raised for the soul purpose of consumptions as food -- ie. we have intended purpose of existence of the chicken or cow for food or else they would not have been alive in the first place. We are just expanding the natural orders as nature intended. Those are indeed very self serving reasons for the human race.

Perhaps in the future, scientists would be able to provide for all the nutrient needs for human beings without resorting to killing of other lives.

Instant noodles sound appealing all of a sudden.

Answer 3

Compassion to all living things is certainly an ideal which we all must try to achieve, if we care anything for a morality. But, in practice, killing of animals for food cannot be expected from all human beings, because it has been the practice from time immemorial. Religions like Buddhism and Jainism which advocate complete ban on killing of animals for food could not spread themselves essentially because of the impracticability of such rigorous theory. I understand that in Sri Lanka, the majority Singhalese population is Buddhist, and yet are meat eaters. Their religious rigours and scruples have only prevented them from butchering the animals and it is said that the Muslim population came to the island only because of their need as butchers of the animals for the Buddhists. Hindu religion does not advocate vegetarianism as an article of faith for all sections of the society. The Brahman is expected to be echew violence and meat eating. A Kshatriya need to tend his body for the protection of the society. The common people engaged in hard labours the taboos cannot be enforced too rigourously. What is expected from these meat eaters and the common men is that they need to graduate themselves to the higher form of living where they will be practising ahimsa in all forms of life. They will slowly achieve this, by observing vrtas or abstinence on religious occasions. It is not uncommon that such persons as they age tend to give up meat and after a certain level of maturity, there will be no difference between them and a brahmin.

Answer 4

THis world order is based on the food-chain concept in which plants, animals and humans have an interlinked supply line of food.One is the food of the other.Even the precious little breath that you are taking is snatched from the other fellow who might have had a right to it had you not taken the puff.What about that?
When our elders are not setting a law to forbid killing of animals, they are merely respecting this ecological balance in nature. But man was never designed to be a food for the other man. Hence, there are laws to forbid killing of man by man.Look at nature, observe its rules and reflect. The only fine -tuning we can have here is to restrict rampant killing/poaching of animalsand prevent misuse of the domestic animals for which conscious movements are there, and one can join them, to enhance these causes.

Answer 5

All the above stuff is for eating You should be knowing about the food cycle right. Yeah . Now so far we have not started eating humans, probably as soon as we start this also then this killing will also not fall in the category of murder.

Answer 6

Values of ideology differs from place, time, purpose and the people and their culture. Basically murder is taking away of life from the living creature by un-natural means. From the view point of spirituality killing even a smallest fly is amounting to murder. But on this earth you find people eating fish to human flesh depending on their circumstancial compulsion!
In a political war, terrorist activities, robberies and for various other reasons murder took place, and whatever the name you give to them, they are all murders.

Answer 7

The comparison is not right nor wrong. It is merely a different perspective on the subject of killing from the one most commonly employed, namely animals are not persons, so killing them does not rise to the level of severity as killing another human being that is a person.

Answer 8

I don't think it's right to kill anything. But, of course, I do it. Roaches are disgusting, as are ants in my house. Hens, Cows, Fish, are all food.
I hope it doesn't have anything to do with intelligence, however. If that were the case, there are many that post on Yahoo! Answers that would be susceptible to that.

Answer 9

weather u kill a hen or a man
its a MURDER.
Its a diffrent thing that its not punishable under law.
But its a MURDER.
We have brains we should use them.
and not depend on laws to teach us whats right or wrong.
I think the word ManKind is a wrong word
becase Man are not kind towards poor, harmless, dumb & deaf animals.

Answer 10

Chickens are meant for getting slaughtered for being cooked and served as a delicious and wholesome food. So, killing a chicken ought not to be called a "MURDER". Whereas, the same is not true for human beings, for reasons easily understandable. i hope you too can understand this !!!

Answer 11

Human always do the things which they think it is wrong, but they still move on.

It's not about the moral, but physical needs.