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bioemerl  ·  3489 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Is an animal’s marked intelligence really reason enough not to eat it?

How? In cutting you are directly cutting yourself, multiple times with a knife blade. You can very easily hit an artery while doing so.

A whip, however, is not likely to do so, and will probably leave no more than surface scratches.

Secondly, cutting still hints at underlying issues that need to be solved. BDSM does not.