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Originally Posted by jeff3  The same arguments I'm hearing here about it being disgusting also apply to medicine and care of corpses but I feel pretty sure you guys pay someone to handle that for you and don't ask questions like "Do you embalm your own relatives?" , "Do you treat your grandma's impactions at home?" , "Do you perform surgery at your house cause it's icky?" No ,of course not, you've just been de-conditioned by having other people handle the hard and and messy work and now it's become "icky" and "wrong" and attacked under the guise of enlightenment, spiritual superiority or some form of moral/ethical issue. |
I help to run a large animal rescue program. I don't think twice about cleaning an infected wound, changing dressing, superficial debriding, giving an enema, or doing a dissection. It's a part of the necessary treating & healing process. I am also back in college on a medical track, and I don't find surgery "icky" at all. Surgery stops suffering and saves lives. Life, in my opinion, is extremely valuable.
Killing, eviscerating, butchering are the exact opposite: absolute destruction. It's a process where a balanced living thing is reduced to decomposing flesh. The moment you kill an animal, the cells begin to break down and bacteria begin to multiply -- rotting. Coagulation, putrefaction, and a pathogen-laden guts pile have a reason to be called "icky".
If we know people don't need meat to live, the whole process is unnecessary. It's not a "guise"; it's a fact. If we don't need X to live and X causes suffering, death, high rate of food poisoning, then why the heck do we still do X? So call me crazy if I find rotting dead flesh "icky" and the miracle of a healing wound "not icky".