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Cultural Traditions vs. Animal Cruelty
March 10, 2009 - 02:36 AM
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Bullfighting, fox-hunting and whale-hunting are part of some countries' traditions. Do you think that countries (or individuals) should have a right to continue these traditions?
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Re: Cultural Traditions vs. Animal Cruelty
March 10, 2009 - 09:38 AM
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Any cultural traditions that is against conservation of fauna and flora ought to be discouraged.
How ever it is a pity that the world pays little attention to animal cruelty because its effect is not very vissible on our environment like that of deforestation and global warming.
Not only in Europe where fox hunting and bull fighting are practised, other parts of the world like Africa where cruelty to animals are common through certain cultural practises and ritual sacrifice ought to be condemned.
I am also of the opinion that bestiality is also a form of cruelty to animals, as such societies need to promulgate laws to punish all forms of cruelty to animals.
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Re: Cultural Traditions vs. Animal Cruelty
April 21, 2009 - 12:44 PM
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All of these activities are cruel and the people have no right to carry on with the traditions.If whale hunting is carried on, then it won't be long before some species of whales become extinct. TH=he population of humans has increased so rapidly that maintaining these traditions may lead to extinction of the animals. On the other hand it might also lead to over-breeding due to human intervention which will in turn lead to ecological disbalance as food supplies run out, etc, etc. These traditions come from a time when we had a completely different mind-set. Times have changed along with point of views and so should traditions.
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Re: Cultural Traditions vs. Animal Cruelty
April 28, 2009 - 05:33 PM
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Cultural Traditions are a very difficult thing to attack when it comes to the beliefs of opposing cultures. Culture is something that is taught and engrained into people from the time that they are born, a state of mind if you will that is passed down from generation to generation - it is not an easy thing to weed out!
While some traditions made sense "way back in the day" - before technology and higher education, I think that it has become incresingly clear in this day and age that a lot of traditions are barbaric and mindless.
Any amount of taunting/cruelty that is directed towards a living, breathing, feeling being/animal in the name of "tradition" is and should be considered an illegal act.
If people can hide behind tradition in order to devalue a life (human or otherwise) then doesn't that undermine our value as a species? What makes our existance any more valuable?
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Re: Cultural Traditions vs. Animal Cruelty
May 12, 2009 - 11:27 PM
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RebeccaBernard wrote:
Cultural Traditions are a very difficult thing to attack when it comes to the beliefs of opposing cultures. Culture is something that is taught and engrained into people from the time that they are born, a state of mind if you will that is passed down from generation to generation - it is not an easy thing to weed out!
While some traditions made sense "way back in the day" - before technology and higher education, I think that it has become incresingly clear in this day and age that a lot of traditions are barbaric and mindless.
Any amount of taunting/cruelty that is directed towards a living, breathing, feeling being/animal in the name of "tradition" is and should be considered an illegal act.
If people can hide behind tradition in order to devalue a life (human or otherwise) then doesn't that undermine our value as a species? What makes our existance any more valuable?
Devaluing a life
People are animals to
Animals kill each other
Or in this sense "people kill animals"
Its not cruel its just the food chain
And by that i mean
Animals follow that rule and apparently we do to
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Re: Cultural Traditions vs. Animal Cruelty
May 28, 2009 - 04:30 PM
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There is a differnece between killing an animal so that you can eat and torturing, teasing and then brutally murdering an inocent animal that can't defend itself for the sake of tradition and entertainment.
I urge you to open your young mind to the fact that the world is not so black and white or cut and dry.
To hide behind the food chain as an means of justifying cruel treatment of another species is exactly the type of mentality that will continue this type of behaviour.
If we were to look at all situations in life this way then we could also justify the kidnapping and torture of childern. They are, as you put it, lower on the food chain!
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Re: Cultural Traditions vs. Animal Cruelty
June 3, 2009 - 06:16 PM
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I hope this generation will not terminate all animal spieces.
In Africa the rate of illiteracy is high, We don't know the value of animals in our planet.
We need to be informed about animal life as it affects our surroundings.
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Re: Cultural Traditions vs. Animal Cruelty
October 20, 2009 - 09:59 PM
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I do not condone those cultural traditions, and I believe efforts should be made to try and stop them. With so many animals threatening extinction and so many others suffering because of these traditions, it's time to put them behind.
But the problem is just that. Many decades of these practices definitely aren't going to be simply put behind over night. 
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