Originally Posted by CorbinFisher_BD
We use live fish as bait. We raise live animals in some pretty atrocious conditions for food. We do a lot of messed up things to animals. We get pissed off when dolphins get caught in drift nets, yet don't much care for the tuna.
What determines what animals shouldn't suffer and which ones we're willing to put through some pretty rough shit for our own convenience? Lotta cows live pretty miserable lives before slaughtered, but because they're nothing but food to us no one really much cares.
Hamilton_Steele doesn't take issue with hunting, so has no problem blowing a bird outta the sky for sport. (I hunt too, so am just using that as an example).
What makes dogs and cats so special? That they're pets to us here in the West? Other parts of the world don't share that perception.
And so us using our own cultural viewpoints to condemn other cultures for what they do that we do not approve of is, I feel, prejudiced and ethnocentric.