As a rural kid who grew up hunting and raising live stock I have gutted, bled and bludgeoned nearly everycreature that walks the hills and valleys of the western united states. This doesn't bother me, neither does human blood. What does bother me is when people express distress or pain behavior when I see blood, patient knocked out in surgery with their guts on display no problem, people getting a cyst excised who make so much as a moan of discomfort, I damn near hit the floor. I think this is good--it lets me know that I am human, I am distressed by human suffering, or animal suffering for that matter, not even your food should have to suffer (however I'm not sure reserach counterparts agree--they to unbelievably awful things to animals). People think that tv decensitizes you to violence and gore. it doesn't. There is nothing like the real thing, I think for most of human history people were more like me than urbanites--blood and guts are just part of life. None the less, I have gutted and cut up more things than most of you could imagine, and still the blood of a suffering or distresed creature disturbs me, and on occasion makes me feel woosy. Eat a greasy breakfast, however, makes it a little better. People who don't find blood, guts and pain disturbing worry me.
