PETA TV -- Oh my God! This video is disturbing...

[HeyHeyYouYou]

Yet yoru concept of evil centers around a moral system where you were brought up believing that animals are different from any other resource on the planet. (Why do I feel like I've argued this before...?) For people who grow up and are taught that animals are another resource, where they cannot afford the luxury to follow time consuming guidelines in order to make a meager living, what does skinning an animal alive mean to them? What does a dog mean to them sentimentally if it's always been used for food and not as companions and pets?

While you and I may not agree with their treatment of animals, you haven't been brought up with their moral standards or their living situations and you really are in no position to call them "evil".

I have a hard time buying this justification. First, hasn't China been committing genocide for years because they are taught that male babies are superior? Does that make it right just because they were "brought up that way?" Or what about suicide bombers who are "brought up" to think that it is OK to walk into a crowd and blow themselves up? Is that OK?

I'm sorry...some things are just plain evil. And just because one culture may practice these evil things doesn't mean we have to be accepting of them in fear of being called insensitive.Skinning another living thing alive while it writhes and screams in pain is just about as savage as one can get in my book.

Seriously...this video is absolutely disgusting and horrid. There is absolutely NO excuse to treat those animals the way they were treated. None. A quick blow to the head would have done the job...but those guys were obviously getting a thrill out of torturing. Hell....isn't that one of the early signs of being a serial killer?? But yet it's not evil.......

 

[RationalLunacy]

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Now you all know what the Nazis did to the Jews, gays, and gypsies.
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[luminum]

I have a hard time buying this justification. First, hasn't China been committing genocide for years because they are taught that male babies are superior? Does that make it right just because they were "brought up that way?" Or what about suicide bombers who are "brought up" to think that it is OK to walk into a crowd and blow themselves up? Is that OK?

I'm sorry...some things are just plain evil. And just because one culture may practice these evil things doesn't mean we have to be accepting of them in fear of being called insensitive.Skinning another living thing alive while it writhes and screams in pain is just about as savage as one can get in my book.

Seriously...this video is absolutely disgusting and horrid. There is absolutely NO excuse to treat those animals the way they were treated. None. A quick blow to the head would have done the job...but those guys were obviously getting a thrill out of torturing. Hell....isn't that one of the early signs of being a serial killer?? But yet it's not evil.......

I'm not saying that you need to accept them, but "evil" is a strong term and one that you really have no business using in an argument that states that "they deserved to be skinned alive, too".

The Taliban calls the majority of the West "evil" and "sinful" for things that you certainly don't find to be "evil".

Skinning an animal alive is cruel, but that's the way they run their business. Is ripping a flower off a plant cruel? To some it is, and there are some who would call you evil for doing so.

What I'm saying is that if these people view an animal as inequivalent and unfeeling on the same level as a plant, then the deed isn't intentionally cruel, though the end remains the same. There may be actual reasons why these skinners don't outright kill the animal. Maybe striking a killing blow will stain the fur in the head region. Maybe a shot to the head will also stain the fur and muscle contractions/rigor mortise will make skinning even more difficult.

The animals probably aren't being gassed or electrocuted or some other mark-free means of killing them because guess where they are, some resource-poor location in China's vast territory.

I imagine these skinners are more likely to be "ignorant" than "evil", as I would also classify the ideas of male superiority in China (and other countries') history of female infant genocide.