I've actually seen that before - and like most people my first reaction is of course "what idoit does this?!?!?!"

But when you consider

1. the animal was defanged and for the most part harmless - certainly less harmful than say a dog or cat and if we saw same child doing that to a dog on Americas Funniest Home Videos we would laugh our asses off.

2. Cobras are a big part of these people culture and who am I to pass judgment on their culture - I'm hoping this is in some way meant to teach the children respect of these creatures.

3. People see my small children holding our snakes and think "what kind of idiot does this".

But to post it without pointing these out might lead the less intelligent to think it's ok to play with cobras - but I guess that's where Darwins theory comes into play.
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