Groups want annual festival of animal sacrifices to stop.

[Lummy]

What is their justification for intervening, icky-ness?

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Animal-rights campaigners are hoping this year’s festival season in Nepal will be a little less bloody.

During the 15-day Dasain festival that began this week in the Himalayan country, families fly kites, host feasts and visit temples, where tens of thousands of goats, buffaloes, chickens and ducks are sacrificed to please the gods and goddesses as part of a practice that dates back centuries.

Animal rights groups are hoping to stop —or at least reduce— the slaughter, using this year’s campaign as a practice run to combat a much larger animal sacrifice set for next year at the quinquennial Gadhimai festival.

Such a campaign is novel in Nepal, where four out of five people are Hindu and animal sacrifice is a deeply rooted tradition. https://apnews.com/f898cb9827b74ae8be0f29a0b24cc2fe

Is what they're doing really morally righteous or just liberally, progressively, fashionably PC?

[Peter1469]

I would say the animal rights side is more morally righteous than PC.

[donttread]

What is their justification for intervening, icky-ness?



Is what they're doing really morally righteous or just liberally, progressively, fashionably PC?

Let the answer come from within Nepal, whatever and whenever that answer might be.

[Lummy]

I would say the animal rights side is more morally righteous than PC.

But what moral(s) are we talking about? The Bible contains much animal sacrifice. Ritual slaughter of livestock is an integral part of Judeo tradition.

[Peter1469]

But what moral(s) are we talking about? The Bible contains much animal sacrifice. Ritual slaughter of livestock is an integral part of Judeo tradition.

Not so much in the modern era.

[Lummy]

But what moral justification? The Commandment not to kill applies to people. Animals are to be respected. Is religious slaughtering of animals now a display of disrespect?
Seems to me there is no justification for banning the practice aside from other peoples' PC, and that is not moral justification.

What about sport hunting and shooting deer?

[Peter1469]

But what moral justification? The Commandment not to kill applies to people. Animals are to be respected. Is religious slaughtering of animals now a display of disrespect?
Seems to me there is no justification for banning the practice aside from other peoples' PC, and that is not moral justification.

What about sport hunting and shooting deer?

I would expect that most animal rights advocates do not base their morality on the bible. I also expect they are against sport hunting and shooting deer. At least that is my guess.