This is for people who have worked in a slaughter house.?!
Answers: .could that person kill a person as easy an animal?
Well, its true that killing animals de-sensitises people and society.
I am surrounded by beef, sheep and dairy farms and its suprising how matter-of-fact they talk about human death....
"Harrys dead"
"Oh, he worked here for 20 years right ?"
"yes, pass me the post hammer and wire stretcher"
i bet if it were legal they would
sick sick sick bastards! i don't see how anyone could kill anything!!! =(
My cousin's boyfriend worked in a slaughter house for awhile. He said it sucked. Every now and then a cow would come up to him in between herding them into line and shiver and moo while looking straight at him.
Perhaps we come back as the shivering mooing cow, but can't explain it cause we're cows.
I'm sure they are fully capable of it.
Serial killers start out with cats and dogs.
I definitely think that being around all the death, suffering and fear has an affect on the workers. They must be desensitized in order to work there.
When you watch those videos you see the workers go one right after another shocking them or slitting their throats as the animals cry and scream in pain and fear...those people are surely a bit dead inside.
When I hear my cat cry I go and see what's harming him because I don't want him to hurt or be afraid. I care for him. What makes any pig or cow different from my cat who I know can suffer and feel fear?
I definitely think that if someone that desensitized to the fear and suffering of another living being was provoked to thinking of actual murder, they would surely find it MUCH easier to turn off their empathy with their potential victim as opposed to someone that hasn't worked in such an environment. They have learned HOW to do so at work...
But rather than "easier" the question is "as easy" to kill a person...
Only if they are able to discount the suffering of people in the same way that they discount the suffering of animals. If they are able to see a person as LESS than themselves the way they see animals as being LESS than them. Then they are very much capable of killing a person because their death does not "mean" as much and their suffering is some how also LESS intensely felt or some dispicable crap like that.
I see this in some of those macho, aggressively over-masculinized, violent men that think of women as somehow being less than them and I think that's why more women are victims of violent crime than men. Those perpetrators are able to turn off empathy because their victims are JUST women.
I don't know about those who work in a slaughter house, but growing up on the farm we slaughtered animals for our own food. I don't think I have turned into a sociopath over it. It's just a fact of life. We were good to the animals and when it came time for them to be slaughtered, it was done quickly. I don't mean to sound cold, but to me it's part of the food chain. Believe me, I don't believe in mistreating animals, but livestock is a farm family's food. It doesn't make them murderers. I'm 36 and haven't killed anyone yet.
Well you'll often find that psychopaths and murderers will have had a history of abusing animals when they were young. Hunting for food is one thing but killing thousands of animals one after the other, day in day out, must have some effect on an individual. Either that or they must have already had a cold heart to even think of working there in the first place.
I don't know for certain whether they'd be able to kill a person just as easily but I do know that, if I were starving on a desert island, I would stick with the vegetarian/vegan and stay well away from a slaughter house worker!
I don't think many people that have worked in slaughterhouses hang around the V&V forum.
But... many of my family members have worked for Decker, and none of them (that I know of) are murderers... though many have done jail time. Then agian, my family is a group of East Texas rednecks, so jail time is just about mandatory.
So could they kill a person as easy as an animal? No. Sadly, they don't even make the connection that we are animals, too. Most people view animals as lesser beings that are undeserving of our respect and are here solely for our enjoyment.
Then again... have you ever seen Texas Chainsaw Massacre. That crazy mutha f***er started killing right after he was fired from his slaughterhouse job. (The movie is based on true events and the guy did work at a slaughterhouse)
Doubtful. You vegetarians humanize animals way too much.