alot of the so called third world or under development countries do not have
1 the crime rate we have murder, rape or theift
Of course they don't mate
(that's sarcasm incase you missed it)
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alot of the so called third world or under development countries do not have
1 the crime rate we have murder, rape or theift
you have cattle having their throuts cut but yet female mutilation does not get any viewing
oh and topcropper
because you have one view of the world does not mean that another is in the stone age
indonchina is not barbaric
you either adjust or don't go
Thanks Lisa.... you took the apple and the hand with it. I must confess, that I baited you... just like the media
It definitely was not intended as a personal tirade, but rather to illustrate how easily a thought process can be drawn to a particular conclusion. I agree with everything you said except those comments at the end of your post... the emotional ones, where logic was swept aside for personal gratification. This is exactly how the media preys on the collective consciousness to evoke an emotive response, rather than rational.
But hey, that's OK, I enjoyed the discourse
There were a lot of blokes involved trying to kill these poor cattle. Blokes pulling them with ropes, kicking them, gouging their eyes, spraying them with water. The cattle were terrified, as they had seen their mates in front of them butchered, so they were fighting for their life. The blokes were paid to slit the throats of the cattle while they were facing Mecca, and while the animals were still alive.
This is what would happen in a civilised world, by civilized people. It's about time these people came out of the stone age.
As above....I can see that you hold no compassion for these animals at all. And with that, I am going to bed!
No one here is approving of it, but they do it to people as well. Anyone care?
Some people throw rocks at a tank which fires back with real bullets. Is that what civilised people do?
Thousands of old people and kids are homeless on Australian streets. How about anybody caring about that?
Gee, the "civilized world" around here obviously has much more pressing priorities.
As above.
Seems you have none for human beings, many of which do not have a bed.
Bravo... At last someone else who can contextualize world events... Kudos to you!
A little bit of perspective can go a long way...
I DO care about the animals, but am far more appalled at the lack of empathy for our fellow human beings which should be a higher priority. But hey, it isn't currently the main news story so must be less important today
Yes, 236,000 Australians urgently contacted their political representatives and voiced their grief, to astonishingly rapid effect it would appear.
May I add, not one of those people I'd warrant would seriously not rate human suffering either here or overseas as in any degree less important, but what all of them saw I believe was an outrage that could be immediately addressed by the relatively simple act of suspending exports of live animals to Indonesia.
And the result achieved was not nothing. It was an important additional step in the right direction. You'd need to be inhumane and anti-democratic to the core to not appreciate this. As the expression has it, "something is better than nothing", and this was something.
My personal thanks go out to LisaP again for putting me (and everyone to whom I forwarded those links) onto the most effective trails for expressing our outrage.
NB: Lisa, wasn't Heidegger, Heidegger a boozy begger who could think you under a table? Damned if I'd trust his brand of hermeneutic phenomenology!
Thank you to everyone who phoned or emailed their respective MP's and kept up the pressure, and did not let this shameful trade slip from the news. I am very pleased the live export of cattle is suspended for six months. Let us hope they make it permanent.
A big apology is needed from my partner who thought that all the phone calls and emails i sent would amount to nothing.
Yes, 236,000 Australians urgently contacted their political representatives and voiced their grief...
May I add, not one of those people I'd warrant would seriously not rate human suffering either here or overseas as in any degree less important