Killing an animal that killed
In the section of Laws it is written, “If an ox gores a man or a woman, and they die, the ox shall be stoned, and its flesh shall not be eaten, and the owner of the ox shall be clean.”
A question occurred to me: What is the bull’s fault that he has to die? What is the benefit of his death? It’s not like us humans to create a deterrent for other people not to do this act again.
Rather, the bull did it because of its nature/the current situation.
So why kill him? So that the family of the murdered person will feel revenge? Sounds like a weak reason to me…
I understand that even a lion and a snake are killed if they kill a person, what good is that? After all, it’s in their nature to kill, that won’t change, and it also doesn’t sound particularly fair to me.
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Simply put, it is a punishment for the owner of the bull (financial loss).
The fact that the bull is put on trial as if it were a person can be seen as an educational message to the owner of the bull, that in fact he should have been put on trial (because he did not protect the bull), but since his responsibility is not complete, the bull is put on trial in his place. This is like the explanation for the sin offering, where the animal is slaughtered as a message to the owner that in fact this should have been done to him.
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