some thinking

Sammy 2022-12-08 18:03:27

It's hard not to be moved by such a film, and it even gave up beef for a long time. In some clips, you even have to cover your eyes and look through your fingers to have the courage to look directly, forcing yourself to face these real happenings, instead of choosing to escape, to face the truth, only then will it be possible to change for the better, and only then will the filming of this scene become better. The hard work put in by the filmmakers has not been in vain.

But at the same time, there will also be some thoughts. The cruelty of human beings to animals in the film is indeed shocking, but is this not the normal state of nature?

Humans are cruel to animals, and animals are cruel to animals.

Beasts eat their prey directly, and even more cruel, such as hyenas, even choose to dig their anus, aren't they cruel?

Not to mention between humans and animals, it is the same between humans and humans.

300,000 people were killed in the Nanjing Massacre, how many undead were there in the gas chambers of the Auschwitz concentration camp, the Japanese unit 731 infected pregnant women with bacteria and performed vivisections, the United States carried out genocide on Indians, and the ten-day massacre in Yangzhou first robbed treasures, and then raped them. Killing, the Mongol Empire expanded wildly into one city, slaughtered one city, and swept across the Eurasian continent. Is there any difference between the workers who worked day and night on the production line in the early days of European capitalism and the cows who were constantly being squeezed and milked?

The struggle between nature's creatures, including humans, is so cruel.

Do workers all over the world live the same life even now?

This world is dominated by the weak, and the weak will be beaten, oppressed and exploited.

Empathy is just a highly developed product of human society.

But it is also mixed with doubts and condemnations of yourself. In the face of such a bloody and cruel picture, in the face of such severe pain, can you only attribute it to the normal state of nature?

Unfortunately, looking at the relationship between humans and animals, I came to this conclusion.

But I still think that since human beings stand at the top of the food chain and have the most developed intelligence, they should do something to change this indifference to other life. But human beings have survived for hundreds of millions of years, but there is not much about the evolution of human nature.

And I am very pessimistic that human nature is irreversible and cannot be changed.

I'm so frustrated that I came to this conclusion. I hope you can correct me if you have any good opinions. I'm looking forward to it.

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  • [first lines]

    title card: earth-ling n. - One who inhabits the earth.

    Narrator: Since we all inhabit the earth, we are all considered earthlings. There is no sexism, racism, or speciesism in the term 'earthling'. It encompasses each and every one of us: warm- or cold-blooded, mammal, vertebrate or invertebrate, bird, reptile, amphibian, fish and human alike.

  • Narrator: It is the human earthling who tends to dominate the earth, oftentimes treating other fellow earthlings and living beings as mere objects. This is what is meant by 'speciesism'. By analogy with racism and sexism, speciesism is a prejudice or attitude or bias in favor of the interests of the members of one's own species and against those of members of other species.