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Originally posted by BigG
Hey, did you ever see "Roger and Me?" It's a very nice documentary by Michael Moore. In it he shows a woman kill and clean a rabbit. (She raises rabbits for Pets or Meat - your choice.)
He received many, many complaints about that scene with the rabbit being killed.
What was odd about this is that he had another scene, this one was of a caped man being shot to death by the police . . . and nobody said anything about that scene.
Rabbit death = complaint
Human death = who cares?
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I think we object more to killings of things which represent innocense. Fluffy white rabbits and cute little cats are animals which we view as completely innocent, incapable of harming others. Children are in the same category, which is why we object so strongly to child abuse. Adult human beings do not represent innocense in the same way. A lot of times, we feel that if an adult gets killed over something, he/she probably deserved it. A lot of this, I feel, is subconscious.
Adult humans are capable of hurting others; cats, rabits, and children are not. Note that rats and roaches are living things which can and do do harm to humans. They spread disease, bite children, nest in our bathtub drains. When they are killed, we look at it as more of a good thing.