William T Goodall wrote:
Jews and Muslims
are allowed to ignore the laws on animal cruelty and engage in the
barbaric practice of slitting the throats of live animals without
numbing them in order to create kosher and halal meat."
I don't have a big problem with this one. Back when
it became a tradition, it WAS one of the most reliably
humane ways to slaughter animals. Given that the animals
are raised to be killed and eaten, the throat-slitting adds
little extra cruelty to the process.
...
where everyone has the same rights, and nobody is granted special
rights just because they claim their ideas come from an invisible
supernatural being.
...
I'm with you on this one. Ideas should stand on their
own, not on their supposedly supernatural provenance.
---David
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