Anthropos metron versus bous metron? the significance and suffering of animals in regard to sacrificial rituals

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    Derrida argued that experience provides a clear answer to the question of whether animals experience suffering: "No one can deny the suffering, fear, or panic, the terror or fright that can seize certain animals and that the authors humans can witness." Many tribal communities, who killed animals to survive, had long known that animals were capable of feeling pain and suffering, yet they were not reluctant to "slash the tendons of elephants` hind legs, paralyse with poisoned arrows, bludgeon victims, especially large ones like elephants or buffaloes, caught in pits" (Elżanowski 2018, 127 . . .

     

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