No matter what the alleged crime of the men were, they could have been painlessly executed, there is never any need to deliberately inflict such suffering upon another (that will brutally traumatize the consciousness, requiring extensive psychological healing and soul-retrieving, and leave psychological scars which will go beyond this lifetime now extinguished).

And to think that throughout the ages (particularly the dark ages and the witch hunts and the Inquisitions, and even up till today), there have been hundreds of thousands of helpless men and women forcibly burnt alive at the stake, their pain, suffering and trauma unspeakable.

Video :
http://www.sammyboy.com/showthread.php?96989-man-burnt-alive-for-stealing-potatoes

Greetings Kyo.

   I normally don't like seeing things like the video you posted, but I felt compelled to watch it anyway. I know the world has many evil people in it, and the world has been that way all through history. It made me cry. I cried almost as much as when I saw this video by Paul McCartney:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ydyhpoLrG8

   I would be ashamed to call myself a human but I realize that these kind of people are exceptions to the human race, not the rule. I do wish though that more people would realize what happens to the slaughtered animals and go vegetarian like I am.

   Not only do many of these animals suffer their whole lives, but the bad karma is carried into the humans that consume them. This is why so many meat eating people have painful ailments. I'm 51 years old and stopped eating meat 13 years ago. I currently feel healthier than I was back then, with no pain in my body at all.

   Sometimes I wish I could have superhero powers and stop the bad people from inflicting harm, but how do I know if they are creating new bad karma, or just settling old karmic debts. I agree with the Hindu teachings of vairagya, or non-attachment to this world:
http://www.swamij.com/yoga-sutras-11216.htm

Ralph

Can't watch the video

but it seems like there is a neve-ending stream of this kind of violence from Africa, and it is hard not to wonder why this continent has such an excess of this. What does it mean, I wonder.


(Also wonder how the reply got ahead of the original post.... ! Why is this thread backwards?)

   It seems no one cares about the helpless animals that get tortured and ate for food. I guess I mentioned this in a poor location. I think I'll make another post somewhere that will be seen better.

Ralph