Re: Curtains for Shambo


"Malcolm" <Malcolm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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In article <1185463101.76250.0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, BAC
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In article <1185439416.71770.0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
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"Me" <me@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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In article <1185436013.2190.0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
casswalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx says...
Shambo, the Frisian bullock, a sacred temple bull, is to be
slaughtered
today on the orders of the Welsh Assembly. I guess that in what must
have
been a difficult decision, the appeal court ruling established that
animal
welfare considerations outweigh religious convictions in this
country.

My sympathies to all those Hindus who are going to feel affronted
because
their temple will be defiled by what they will regard as an act of
sacrilege
by the Welsh Assembly.

We all have Laws we must obey. Would you feel so strongly if the
Police
were to raid a temple where cannabis was a feature?

We are all subject to the law, but the decision whether or not to obey
any
particular law is a matter of personal conscience. That is why
sanctions
are
needed to enforce the law.

I would feel sympathy for members of any religious congregation whose
beliefs were being steamrollered by the state. The fact the state has
the
power to enforce whatever laws it wishes does not necessarily mean it
is
right for it do so, still less does it mean that individuals should be
debarred from recognising and sympathising with the difficulties of
those
directly affected by such enforcement.


So, what you're saying is that "honour" killings are a matter of
personal conscience?

All deliberate unlawful actions are a matter of personal conscience,
including commission of or participation in so called honour killings,
euthanasia, political assassination, revenge killings, lynchings, or
whatever. The fact that some actions are illegal does not make it
impossible
for them to be carried out, it merely stipulates the punishment which can
be
expected for transgression. Whether or not others agree with an
individual's
decision to commit an act he/she knows to be a criminal offence, it *is*
his/her decision to do so, and therefore a matter for his/her personal
conscience.

It seems that the Hindus who tried to stop Shambo being slaughtered may
not have been interpreting their faith correctly:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/6917226.stm


I doubt they would agree that their view in the matter was 'incorrect' as
opposed to 'different' to that individual's view, and I do not doubt that
their views and beliefs were sincere, nor that their distress at the outcome
is anything less than genuine, and, in my opinion, deserving of sympathy.


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