@mysharona
The difference is one takes minutes to die, while the other takes up to hours. And in the case of the latter, there's also saltwater coming in contact with the wound.
If that's to hard to visualize, just grab a knife from your kitchen, and stab into your torso. Then have someone continually rub salt or pour alcohol into your wound. Tell me if you like how it feels.
If I stabbed one single person and twisted the knife around until he died, I would be labeled a sadistic murderer or psychopath. Yet when the same is done to whales in their hundreds and thousands, all people say is, it's the Japanese's right and culture? Screw that.
The problem I have is not neccessarily with harvesting animals, rather, it is with people like you who regard animals as a lower class, and thus we humans can and should do whatever we wish to them, with blatant disregard of the needless suffering and pain inflicted.
Often times, these activities are done for sport (e.g. hunting), or for a non-essential food source or luxury item.
It simply infuriates me that an alligator has to die because someone wants leather shoes when synthetic ones would do an equally capable job of shielding his feet.
Or that a fox has to die because some bitch wants a fur coat when one made of nylon and insulation is equally capable of keeping her warm.
Or that a harmless deer has to die because some hunter wants a trophy to hang on his wall. I mean, is that really neccessary and worth taking a life for?
Or that sharks have their fins sliced off and left to die, just so some Chinese people can carry on their tradition of having sharks fin at the dinner table as a status symbol.
Or in the case of whaling, magnificent creatures have to die because the Japanese want an exotic meat as a delicacy, when there are hundreds of other types of fish they can eat.
Animals are a food source, I fully agree. But if we humans are as 'civilized', 'intelligent' or 'evolved' as we proclaim ourselves to be, then can't we at least make an effort to treat them humanely?
We've made great efforts to execute criminals (people who are real animals) humanely, yet the same consideration or effort is rarely given to innocent creatures unfortunate enough to be living on the same planet as us.
And, can't we also try to reduce harvesting them unless there's an urgent need to? Think of sharks fin and whale meat. The world would not starve or grind to a halt if neither is on the table.
Anyone who thinks along the lines of, "But who cares. It's just an animal", is degenerate retard that's not worthy of living on this planet.
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