[Avodah] torture in halacha???
Zev Sero
zev at sero.name
Tue May 15 13:51:42 PDT 2012
On 15/05/2012 4:40 PM, hankman wrote:
> think you need to define “for no purpose,” wrt tzaar baalei chayim
It is permitted to pluck a feather from a living bird in order to make
a pen. This is something that no decent human being would actually do,
but it is not forbidden under the rubric of tzaar baalei chayim, because
the intent is not the bird's suffering but to obtain the feather, and
the bird's suffering is merely "psik reisha". (For that matter,
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