that would be on a small scale then yes it would be stupid to, but if your parents went and murdered someone unless it was a completly random act isnt it somewhat your fault for not trying to stop them from doing somthing like this?
No, of course it isn't. That's a dangerous and ridiculous precedent. You are responsible for your own actions, and the actions of those acting under your orders. Failing to prevent a crime is not the same as commiting that crime. If that were the case, all people would be equally guilty of every crime that has ever been committed. That's obviously not the case.
sure its not for me to decidie whether he would be better dead or alive i simply stated my opinion on that matter. and to tell them that their beliefs are wrong and that the kid is innocent do you really think that they would belive that? put yourself in the position they're going through if someone told you all your beliefs were wrong would you belive them without question?
It doesn't matter if they believe it or not. Not all beliefs are equal. If you believe that there is no such thing as gravity, I have no need to respect that opinion simply because it is what you believe. It is not an unjust offense, if you are about to step off a cliff, for me to say that gravity will pull you to a grizzly death should you take that step. Belief is not a measure of accuracy, and knowledge must trump belief. I don't expect overnight cultural change to be easy. That's why I suggested merely pulling the kid out of that society.
people die all the time it literally happens at least once every minute worldwide just cause one more is going to die does it give reason to screw around with a cultures beliefs to save one kid when the effort and money being put into somthing like this for travel, etc for the press and others could be used to give enough food to some other kids in another country to keep them alive for a good few years, what puts him above them?
ive seen hundreds of people die in wars on the same basis as this one culture did not agree with the beliefs as another yet those people who outnumber this kind by a huge margin get no where near the amount of attention and help as this kid is getting.
war start because of disagreements maybe if we allowed ourselves to let another culture do things their way regardless of whether someone else thinks they're right or wrong to do it humanity wouldnt be so fucked up.
Eating children because of superstition is fucked up. An end to the practice would make humanity less fucked up. You say that people are dying all the time. This is true. Does that mean that saving lives in the mean time is not valuable? By your way of thinking, the whole human race should just commit suicide right now, since we're all gonna die anyway. It is certainly worth saving this one kid with an unjust death approaching him, and that doesn't make it any less worthwhile to bring food to starving children elsewhere. But it's not zero sum, and that's not what you are proposing. You didn't say "Don't save this kid, save these 100 kids instead." What you have said amounts to "Let this innocent child die, because his people are superstitious and unjust."
and calling them ignorant for beliving in something we all at one point did to is harsh in my opinion we learn from our mistakes and develop because of it.
The key here is "learn from our mistakes". We do indeed. Because we've learned from this mistake, we have the ability to prevent others from making it. That is the whole point of societies, so that you can learn from past mistakes of many prior generations and people, and thus not have to make them yourself. This is what intervening in this case would be, preventing someone else from making a mistake that others had made in the past. You say that we are responsible for crimes we allow to happen. This injustice would be a mistake, by your logic, are we not bound to interfere?
and as for wanting the kid to live because its unjust or cruel to lit him die so what we slaugnter thousands of animals every year yet we being animals ourselves dont care this is because we have to so despite the fact that we are ending a few thousand innocent lives we can live with it. this is the same the kid dies the culture eventually learns that they might be wrong and because of the things commited in their past they know what a horrid hing to do it is thus they develop the kids death is just part of this proccess.
This is irrelevant. They are not killing the child because they must eat him to survive, they are killing him because they are ignorant and unjust. The relationship between predator and prey is not analagous to the relationship between executioner and condemned.
not everyone can live because their innocent or didnt do anything somtimes it just happens and we deal with it because thats just how it is sure we can prevent a few cases but ultimatly we cant do crap about it.
So you would give in to the evil, ignorant, and unjust of the world? If people with that mind set ran the world, they would soon find themselves with no world to run, nor any life with which to run it.
