Shambo should be treated the same as everyone else’s cow/bullock/bovine.
No special treatment because of belief please.
And to think I defended Hindus as being more reasonable in their religion than Muslims, Christians and Jews! Gah!
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July 26th, 2007 at 9:21 pm
You may be interested in this letter by Prof. Prabhu Guptara on the subject:
http://tinyurl.com/34rprg
I am glad the only requirements of my faith are internal, rather than depending upon ritual and icons.
July 26th, 2007 at 11:06 pm
The simple truth is that good laws are there to protect people or animals from something. If a law is good in the absence of religious considerations then it must be the right thing to do.
If your faith’s requirements mean you must break a good law then your faith is not ‘good’ per se and that should be troubling!
July 27th, 2007 at 11:28 am
Oh Gavin I agree with you completely, but there is this nagging feeling at the back of my brain. By this logic we should ‘put down’ people who get TB as well; a family friend (a youngish and hitherto very healthy young man - fervent long-distance cycler etc) got one of these very drug-resistant varieties of TB a few years ago and for several weeks it looked as if he was not going to pull through - a lot of his internal organs have been permanently affected, but in the last couple of years he has ‘recovered’ although he’ll never be what he was before. How he got it? Well I believe there is no clear idea, but I wonder if a recent trip to Russia (his wife is Russian - they’re both musicians and met through a piano recital she was giving with an orchestra he played in) had something to do with it.
However, to sum this up, humans with TB are highly contagious (at least for a while) too, and need to be treated in strictly controlled conditions. So what’s the public health difference? Obviously one must leave out the fact that in this case the person concerned is someone I used to play with since we were both children - I knew his older brother better - so I’m not entirely objective, but still …
July 27th, 2007 at 6:00 pm
I guess in this case I am deferring to those that know better! I don’t know enough about bovine TB or TB generally to know whether the law’s a good one. But if it is..