Truth. Very apples to oranges IMO. While I don't approve of cockfighting obvs it's a totally different culture.
Perhaps a more relateable comparison for most people. Meat is murder and we should have compassion for animals and be vegan and not murder them and instead love and care for them, vs some animals are livestock and food and even if we like them or love them and their death is not murder but natural and inevitable.
We don't strictly NEED to eat animals and so we do it for the joy it brings and it's natural, vs we don't need to fight animals but some people are happy about it and animals fight anyway soooooo....???
We can not approve of the injuries to their animals while acknowledging that they might just be seeing the world from another perspective.
I don't approve of cockfighting. Or any animal fighting. But the line between causing physical damage for pleasure being right or wrong is blurrier than it looks on the surface. If you're part of a culture that views animals with a drastically different morality those lines look different.
In this case, the owner doesn't want the chickens fighting. It's distressing and brings no joy in addition to harming the animals, even though the animals are just being normal roosters. So we work to separate them and keep them healthy. That balance changes based on the people and animals involved, the culture behind those actions, and amount of damage to living things. It's not all black and white.
Perhaps a more relateable comparison for most people. Meat is murder and we should have compassion for animals and be vegan and not murder them and instead love and care for them, vs some animals are livestock and food and even if we like them or love them and their death is not murder but natural and inevitable.
We don't strictly NEED to eat animals and so we do it for the joy it brings and it's natural, vs we don't need to fight animals but some people are happy about it and animals fight anyway soooooo....???
We can not approve of the injuries to their animals while acknowledging that they might just be seeing the world from another perspective.
I don't approve of cockfighting. Or any animal fighting. But the line between causing physical damage for pleasure being right or wrong is blurrier than it looks on the surface. If you're part of a culture that views animals with a drastically different morality those lines look different.
In this case, the owner doesn't want the chickens fighting. It's distressing and brings no joy in addition to harming the animals, even though the animals are just being normal roosters. So we work to separate them and keep them healthy. That balance changes based on the people and animals involved, the culture behind those actions, and amount of damage to living things. It's not all black and white.
Sounds like you are making progress! 
