can i have your opinion on this please ?

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would you please give me your opinions on these two questions in this link. i'm finding it really disturbing to think that most people think that this is ok . please state your opinion good or bad but not offensive . thanks a lot :)

Answer 1

It doesn't matter what culture you are it's not ok for anyone.

Answer 2

Well back in bible times it was the custom of the people to sacrifice and offer up their animals to their gods and that was the way things were done back then. Now today it is still practice were people offer animals as their devotion but I think that is mostily in foreign country not here I would hope not.

Well it all depends on the person . Most people think if they don't have meat they couldn't make it. I don't like to being a vegetarian because when I was growning up we ate mostly vegetables we had meat some but not that much. But we had a big family so we had a garden.
I don't think that people should sacrifice or hurt innocene animals but I still wouldn't let a snake or a harmful creature around me or any of my family. that is the only case.

Answer 3

I still believe slaying an animal is the quickest way and less painful to kill.. it prevents Oxygen from the brain and shuts it down very fast.. even Nature uses this technique; Lion,s tigers, and Most predators.. Putting the animal upside down is a strange custom I don't understand..

The pain that the cow can bear is about 60 times the pain you can.. for example, while a rod hit on a skull of human can kill him, a bull can't feel it at all or it's the same like a piece of paper...

Answer 4

Don't watch things that upset you.
However, there is such a thing as becoming inured to something. After a while, it is done so much or so many times, you don't notice it much. Life does that to you. People do violent things. They do it for reasons that we, in the "first" world cannot comprehend, and NO, it is not okay for them to sacrifice a person instead. We get our meat all neatly wrapped up, and trust me, that butchering you witnessed was more humane than what they do in the abattoirs.

Answer 5

You need to make a very important distinction: ANIMALS ARE NOT PEOPLE!!
I am disgusted by the ignorance of people who actually think like that. You have people demonstrating against eating meat, while nearby dozens are killed in a terrorist attack, and they don't care!!

Now, if you have a religion or culture that sacrifices animals, so what? They were brought up that way, that's what they believe in. For all you know, they might believe that while they sacrifice this cow, a small part of themselves, the sinning part, leaves them and they are absolved of their sins. If you believed in that, wouldn't you want to absolve yourself of all your sins?
Plus, animals do NOT suffer the way humans do. Their nervous systems aren't sufficiently advanced for that. The cow was mooing out of confusion most likely.

I repeat my main point: animals aren't humans, and if there are religions that sacrifice animals as a ritual, who are you to decide what's right and wrong for them? Freedom of religion.
Deal with it.

Answer 6

My honest opinion depends whether I am the one being sacrificed.

I can also answer from what happened to me recently.

I live in an old house out in the country. My health makes me weak. I get animals tearing up my trash and I hate it but cannot bring myself to kill them. I do not usually kill spiders as they kill bugs. I found a black snake in the house last year but they kill rodents so I carried it outside and released it. Just barely got back to a chair exhausted.

Now there is another snake near. I do not see any more mice. If however, that snake goes for my senegal parrot, he is kibbles and bits!

Answer 7

I agree that sacrificing animals is cruel but it is still WAY better than sacrificing a human. Why? Because as a human I understand what other humans feel/experience. I don't know how animals feel.

As far as animals having the same rights as humans, no. Animals are animals and that's just the way it is. In nature you don't see more powerful animals 'bowing down' to weaker animals... they eat them. Life is survival of the fittest and in terms of evolution humans are at the top of the scale so they rule all other life.

Answer 8

Todays youth thinks that morality is a moving target and that one persons morality might not be anothers.

Of course this is far from the truth. Morality is a known fixed thing that can never change.

Answer 9

its not ok EVER for someone to be tortured or killed. i dont care if it is their culture. i find it very disturbing as well. we live in a sick nasty world! i really agree with you, it disturbs me greatly.

Answer 10

your ok