Yea, sorry if I crossed any lines, that certainly wasn't my intention. Trying to keep it light, but the crazy often delves off into serious matters eventually. It was pure speculation on my part, although I'm sure culture, religion and many traditions are linked in one fashion or another. I think sometimes over the millennia traditions sometimes lose their original meanings and take on a legendary status, that can reflect an irrational disconnect from the realities or meanings that existed earlier. Every generation has to eventually define for themselves, within certain historical framework who they are, what they've stood for, and where they are headed.
ie. causing extinction of an entire species would be sacrilege to those who profess Taoism, Buddhism, nor Confucianism. But this the very question that the Asians currently face, that and the existence of nature itself (as we currently know it) is at stake. All the poison of the 70's (dead rivers, lakes, bays, heavy metal contamination) here in the US, is all happening in Asia right as we speak, on a much wider scale, but the world continues driving with the headlights off.