Growing up in the countryside since I was young, the little animals are the objects of play for me and my friends. Use chopsticks to pierce the crab's shell to see if it is dead, break off a leg to see how it crawls, pour water, set fire and drip wax on the ant nest in the yard, pull off the leg of the little toad to use as bait to catch the big frog and give it to the longhorn beetle. Tie up the rope and let it climb up the wall and then pull it down and let it climb up and then pull it down and back and forth.
I bought the little sparrow from the barbecue stall, and my friends said it was too cruel. I just think that is a cowardly hypocrisy. Why don't you feel cruel when you eat chicken, duck and raw octopus? Either you should be a strict vegetarian, or you should treat these creatures that have been made into food in front of you equally, as long as you eat with a grateful heart, don't waste it, and say "いただき" sincerely.ます".
But people are emotional. We will mourn for those who lost their lives in the earthquake tens of thousands of kilometers away. We will feel that eating dog meat is cruel because of the cute and sincere eyes of the puppy. As the top of the biological chain, human beings always have a kind of supreme compassion for other lives. And mercy.
I remember an article on psychology or sociology that I read a long time ago, which explained the difference in human compassion "from time to place". "Because of time" means that disasters closer to you in time will make people feel stronger. Will you worry about the recent disaster, or will you be unable to extricate yourself from the tragic events of the previous few years? "Because of the place" refers to the stronger resonance of human beings to things that are more intimate with them in space. Your own dog and someone else’s dog, the drought in your hometown and the natural disasters in European towns, undoubtedly, people’s feelings will tend to the former.
Many people are just wishful thinking and selectively show their compassion according to their own preferences, and they cannot treat all things equally and have compassion for the common people. In this age of looking cute and cute, humans will love little animals that are cute and lovable, and those animals that have no bright spots, expressions, cuteness, and cuteness, their survival is naturally uninterested. .
I once watched a documentary showing that the American fast food industry has a huge demand for chicken. The life of a chicken is extremely short. It is born in a closed farm and needs to eat some growth-catalyzing hormones every day. It is densely packed with others of the same kind, and there is no room for movement at all-in fact it can't move, because the body has been growing flesh under the influence of the drug, but the bones have not matured enough to support the weight of the body, so it can't stand at all. stand up. He had never seen the sun until he was slaughtered, and he had never found small bugs to eat in the vegetable field. He was born in a farm and was also killed there.
If it's too far away, let's talk about "Dolphin Bay". After a night of unprecedented repentance, I knew that I would never be able to play in the ocean world happily again. I have seen a group of dolphins galloping freely in the ocean in "South Pacific", and the star dolphin in "Dolphin Bay" has been living in a small space for a long time, so the sonar signal sent by the surrounding walls is constantly bounced off. When I came back, I was suffering from depression due to neurological disorder and finally chose to sink into the underwater scene of holding my breath and committing suicide. Even if I went to the aquarium, I would not feel happy, only depression. Their concerted performance cannot bring me joy, because I can feel their pain and despair.
Radical animal protectionists abroad will demonstrate naked in protest, and there are many similar themes reflected in TV and movies. Think about it, this can only exist in developed countries that have satisfied their food and clothing and reached a generally well-off society where people can have more advanced spiritual pursuits. At this stage, people are dedicated to development and the people can’t even fully satisfy their own life needs. Painful and leisurely to care about whether the lower animals living in the distant ocean are happy or free or abused.
Some people think that zoos have contributed to the protection and cherishment of animals, and let people, especially children, understand nature and love nature more. Others think that this is the persecution and imprisonment of animals, which is right and wrong. Sometimes I think with my mind openly, if one day in the future, there will be more advanced creatures on the earth or aliens occupy the earth, the number of humans will be reduced sharply, and they will be trampled by ants and be held by higher creatures. The purpose of protecting biodiversity is to put humans and other creatures in the zoo together for them to study, study and visit. At that time, will they also give humans a simulated living environment, one room, one living room, one kitchen and one kitchen in an iron cage? Wei is about 60 square meters?
I'm not at all interested in having my daughter, who is three and a half, grow up thinking that it's normalized to have these intelligent, highly envolved animals in concret pools.
I don't want her to think that's how we treat the kin that we find our self around on this planet.
I think it's atrocious. The
zoo is just a profit-making organization. When did it take on the role of social science education? When we were young, no one would come out and say that these little bugs and little frogs are also life, so you have to cherish it, so the cruelty of children is that they don’t know their own cruelty. There is very little such thing in our culture and education, which teaches us to respect life and cherish nature.
Now there are public service advertisements of "No business, no harm", but I still hope that people with influence and ability in the society can do more public welfare activities. As a celebrity, you have a certain social responsibility. With greater power, comes greater responsibility.
I'm not a conservative, but I don't want to go to Ocean Park in my whole life. I don’t expect to appeal to many people to do the same as me, but I hope that films like "Dolphin Bay" and "Black Whale" can be seen by more people, so that you can understand the joy that wonderful performances bring to you, which is to establish How deep they are above their helplessness and pain. After you know it, maybe you're not so happy to watch it again...
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