Now that there is such a quarrel, let's clarify the logic first

Nona 2021-12-27 08:01:18

First of all, what does the movie want to say? 1. It is wrong to kill dolphins. or 2, hunting is no problem, but torture is not right. or 3. The killing is wrong, and the wrong to torture is added to the wrong.
In my humble opinion, the answer seems to be 3.

First of all, why is it wrong to kill dolphins?
Basically, dolphins are life, and killing is wrong. (Buddhist logic) So is it right to kill pigs, cattle, sheep and dogs?
Judgment 2: Dolphins are wild, and those raised in captivity are free to kill.
Because they cannot be killed because they are wild, what is the difference between dolphins and ordinary fish in the sea? The fishermen go out to sea to make up for are all wild, right? There seems to be no objection to this.
And the fact that no animal was born by you, has been domesticated by humans over the past tens of thousands of years. It was wild before.
There is also a saying that humans are too greedy, they already have so much meat they don’t eat, and they have to eat dolphin meat. . . It means to rely on the mountains to eat the mountains and the sea to eat the sea, this is common sense in the world. Those fishermen can get dolphin meat best, and of course they eat dolphin meat. According to posts on Japanese forums, there are many people who find dolphins unpalatable. These fishermen don’t keep the delicacies of mountains and seas all day and suddenly want to eat something new. For them, eating dolphins is no different from eating cattle and sheep.
Judgment 3, dolphins are scarce, so they should not be killed.
If this article is established, everyone can shut up. For example, it is suddenly revealed that hunting and killing wild Tibetan antelopes is a direct crime. But is it true? Baidu first, it seems that "no scientist can cite how many dolphins there are, but you can't be blindly optimistic..." If it is really scarce, this is definitely a super argument, but Dolphin Bay has nothing to emphasize this point.
Judgment 4. Dolphins are cute and have a high IQ, so they should not be killed.
From the perspective of the overall story structure of Dolphin Bay, this is the main argument, but this point of view is pure nonsense. If the cute ones shouldn't be killed, there are too many shouldn't be killed. And the view of cuteness is too subjective. Some people think that a dog is cute, while others keep it away.
Judgment 5, dolphins are good friends of mankind!
Weak to spit out, unable to spit out.

So torture, right?
If it is really torture, then you can only shout hentai to this group of neon gold and then turn around and cover your face and run away. . .
why? Because the accusation of torture implies that the perpetrator not only kills the victim, but also tortured and intoxicated him before the killing. . . For example, some things in the Nanjing Massacre in Japan are called massacres. During the Battle of the Guabu in the Northern Wei Dynasty, cute officers and soldiers of the Xianbei tribe stabbed the baby on the tip of a gun to play. This was called torture. Catching a mouse to play with it before killing it is called torture.
I really can't see that this bunch of Neon Gold has the leisure time to appreciate this subtle emotion.
They get up early in the morning to do this drudgery, and their mentality is to kill all these dolphins as soon as possible, go home, drink a glass of sake and take a hot bath, and they will even think of torture! There is no reason to be more sinful.
In fact, tapping with a stick and stabbing with a spear is the most economical way to kill dolphins. It's a bit troublesome to hang up with a knife. Just stand there and stab it down. It's convenient and quick~
Those who say that electric shock is used, the seawater conducts electricity! This electricity is really hell on earth, I don't know what to think. . .

Okay, so I figured out two points. From a Buddhist point of view, all beings are equal. It is not right to kill dolphins and it is wrong to kill others. Without Buddhism, it is impossible to see that dolphins have any special power that can be independent of cattle, horses and dogs. So the argument for not killing dolphins seems insufficient. The accusation of torture is also not established.

What else does Dolphin Bay want to talk about?
At the beginning of the whole article, it seems to discuss a freedom issue, an animal rights issue. This discussion is very interesting. It seems that the United States will not only publish a white paper on human rights, but also a white paper on animal rights in a few years. Maybe it's true that the Americans are too awesome and too advanced as some bar friends said, wives and wives. . . Throwing us a few streets for centuries. If one day we really want to protect animal rights (not to protect our cute kittens and puppies, not to protect the endangered pandas, but to protect the rights of survival and freedom of all animals on an equal basis, just like human rights now), I think everyone will celebrate with everyone, because human rights shouldn't be a problem at that time. First there is the citizenship law and then there is the law of peoples. This is the case in most things in the world.
It is a pity that ideals are full, and reality is very skinny. Besides, this concept itself is full of loopholes.

As a person who studies history, he saw living examples of historical narrative and discourse hegemony in this movie. History is the history written by the victors. This is nothing new. But when I saw such a bloody example in front of me, it was still shocking.
As a history student, seeing any text and narrative, first look at the hidden groups inside. In this narrative, the Japanese fishermen and the local government are hidden. As some bar friends said, they were symbolized from the beginning and became symbols of evil without giving them any opportunity to refute. This is exactly the method commonly used by the owners of the right to speak in historical narratives. Winners and losers have been like this since ancient times.
If the perspective of looking at the problem is changed, there will be different views. There has been much discussion about traditions, etc., so much is not needed.

Legally speaking, there is nothing wrong with the Japanese fishing, and there is nothing wrong with the Americans making film accusations. You have the freedom to kill dolphins, and I also have the freedom to make movies. But in fact, the gap in the right to speak makes the two sides obviously in an unequal ring. Japanese fishermen can do their own way, but the swarms of moral condemnation may also make some of them sleepless, even though such moral accusations are so unbearable.
So a very strange situation appeared. In the movie, the disadvantaged Americans who seemed to be victims and persecutors were still living their own rich and beautiful lives. The strong, violent and barbaric Japanese fishermen did nothing but did what their parents and grandparents had been doing, and they showed themselves in the eyes of the people all over the world.
As mentioned in the new concept, news exposure is the most vicious method. Whether it is your good or bad things that are exposed, your past life will no longer exist.
The discourse hegemons know this very well. They are sitting comfortably on the sofa of their home with the passport to the world, looking at the world map, looking for the next goal.

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The Cove quotes

  • John Potter: As a scientist, I'm trained to recognize intelligence through objective measures... tool use, cognitive processes, and so on. As a human being, when I see a dolphin looking at me and his eyes tracking me and I lock eyes with that animal, there's a human response that makes it undeniable that I'm connecting with an intelligent being.

  • John Potter: It sometimes amazes me that the only language which has been extensively taught to dolphins is a version of American Sign Language, which, of course, you use your hands, so you have all these wonderful signals, and people use their hands to give messages to dolphins. And this somehow kind of misses the point because dolphins don't have hands, so this is inherently a very one-way process. And it's this anthropomorphic, "We have something to teach them or control them," and perhaps we ought to be looking at what they can give to us.