Ashamed to be human

I should have posted a warning that this is a very unpleasant topic.

Well - there we are. What can I say? - I am sure the gods will be thrilled to bits.

I know if I read this, it will prey on my mind, nightowl. .

Sorry Marelli (and others) I pressed post and then realised how upsetting it is. It just leaves me speechless.

Why do humans feel a need to sacrifice countless animals to appease their gods? I'm sure the animals will be left to rot as there can be no way such numbers can be used for food. There is a petition online to try to get this stopped but I've forgotten where it is.

Apologies again for any distress this has caused to anyone. No need to click on the link, the title explains what it is about.

Exactly - which is why I didn't.

It sounds trite, but it's a different culture and of course we can't understand it. The people who do those things are humans too.

I won't read it as it will be just another thing that stays imprinted on my brain. I also despair nightowl for humanity. I think half the population of this world are still in the Stone Age.

I fail to understand why cultural traditions should be used as a reason for us to try to understand this barbarity ( cant bear to follow link). We have moved on from this appeasing gods nonsense surely, and I dont care who I offend by saying so.

I wasn't saying we should try to understand it, GillT57, just that we don't and can't. Neither was I condining it. I don't think anyone will have been offended by your post!

condoning

Not that different to the abbatoir scenario is it?

Abattoir

Where does that leave us petallus? Is wanton cruelty thereby acceptable in either situation? I'm confused.

I would assume that a lot of the people that took part in this were people that have no access to doctors or hospitals if they get ill, and if their crops fail they starve. If they feel that doing this will help them then they will continue to do so. We don't understand because we don't live in the conditions that they do . Maybe it's mans inhumanity to man that's the problem, especially when so many people in the west are overweight and throw food away on a daily basis.

Compassion in World Farming have a petition -
www.ciwf.org/Gadhimai

What happens to the meat? Presumably not consumed? Seems like a great waste of resources to me. It is a barbaric ceremony but i am not 'ashamed to be human'

They may be doing it through fear of not doing it.

I dont feel comfortable telling them what they should and should not do in their own country.

Blood sacrifices to gods have featured throughout human history, here as well as elsewhere. Such practices die out when education improves for whole populations.

Neither situation is acceptable to me nightowl

I don't suppose those doing the sacrificing think it is wanton cruelty. To them it is purposeful.

soontobe Does your distaste apply to other cultural practices, such as FGM, honour killings, forced marriages, rape as punishment for independent women, displacement of indigenous peoples, genocide, or is it applicable only to the senseless killing of animals?

Exactly. And they won't be bothered about what we consider acceptable or not.

(My response was to bags' post, not absent's!)

I dont think that we should barge in telling them what to do.
If they do it in this country, then yes, it becomes our business.

Who are we to tell them what to do.
Seems like racism to me.