ext_113096 ([identity profile] policraticus.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] talkpolitics 2011-06-10 11:04 pm (UTC)

That doesn't explain how it isn't torture.

Sure it does. Torture in the infliction of gratuitous pain on a subject without any legitimate warrant. It is the infliction of pain for pain's own sake. To efficiently and usefully kill a chicken it is the best practice to separate the brain from the body. Hence, cutting the throat, or cutting of the head or severing the spine at the neck. For a chicken, this is not even particularly painful. It's nervous system just isn't advanced enough to process the event.

Some would disagree with that.

Not many people with AIDS, I'm guessing.

But humans do?

Yes, certainly. They are an epiphenomena of our human nature, or an endowment of our creator, depending on how you want to view it. Either way, humans have natural rights.

Most of them, however, can't really compare their experience with that of being uncut

And visa versa. It really comes down to a matter of aesthetics.

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