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Originally Posted by SimonT 
There was a similar contradiction in "Faces of Death", the monkey brain eating scene had a relatively innocuous scene, showing the monkey being strapped up, was cut whilst the actual death and subsequent brain eating was left intact. Because the monkey was liable to have been "in distress" when it was being strapped up, the BBFC were forced to cut it. Whereas the "death" scene was faked using a dummy head, so was left in the film.
The world of the censor is indeed a strange one!
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I don't see how that's a contradiction. It seems perfectly in keeping with their guidelines based on uk law - the scene wasn't cut because of its impact on the viewer but because it breached their guidelines/uk law.