While it's probably not clear from my post (although it is from the one that immediately precedes yours), I'm trying to say the same thing as TS. I feel that technology cheapens and disconnects one from the sacred act of taking life. If all it takes to kill a whale or an eagle is the push of a button, it becomes a video game. There is nothing spiritual about that.
And I eat animals too, but I like and respect them a lot more than I do a lot of people.
I do not agree with killing animals for religious ceremonies, any more than I agree with factory farming. That's my opinion. I don't care if it's a chicken or an eagle. And I do not agree with killing for the sake of killing. Which is what killing an animal for a religious ceremony feels like to me. If it isn't a threat to you, you kill it, you better eat it.
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Originally Posted by PedOncoDoc
TS's argument was not whether to allow the killing of a sacred animal for spiritual practices - it was whether it was okay to use modern techonologies to do so. Several religions have spiritual practices for the killing of animals - I was not debating whether or not to agree with it.
Also I eat animals that have been killed on a regular basis - whether an animal is killed for food or for spiritual beliefs shouldn't make one right and the other wrong, as long as it isn't senseless killing. Comparing the killing of an eagle to the torturing/killing of a person is not a valid argument in my eyes.
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