I understand what you're saying. I said I agreed, to a degree. I understand the need to feed your family. Your just kept defending your "something to think abouts" deeper and deeper, which appeared to put you on one obvious side of the fence. Yes, people need to eat, but they can survive without eating animals as such. They were happily pulling that turtle in, which I find disturbing. They are fisherman. You cannot tell me that they couldn't let that turtle go, and catch FISH. Fish that can replenish themselves. If they had spent the time fishing, that they spent having a mini festival of rituals killing the poor thing, they could have caught an equal amount of fish.
People set humans apart like that, because we are set apart like that. Having emotional relation to other animals....what is so wrong with that. Animals are animals, us included. We are just on a much higher intelligence level. What makes us so superior? Well, the capacity of our brain for one. We are the smartest. We are the most dominant. We are the top of any chain. This said intelligence should lead us to realize that we need to protect any and all around us, if we want to survive in the extremely long term, as a species, not just individuals. Call it moot, call it goofy, or any other descriptive words you like, but it's all relevant to some. Glad I can entertain you.
