the privilege of the ruling class

Amber 2022-12-14 10:42:40

Looking at it with awe, only to gain numbness.

Yes, what we eat, wear, play with, use, and even use to save lives and kill, all thanks to these creatures staring innocently at us. In this situation, as a human individual, what can I do? My hands are tied. To escalate this trampling on animal life and psychology, isn't it the relationship between the ruling class and the ruled class? He was also locked in a cage, trained, and drained of the remaining value... When he saw the butcher beat and abused the pigs in the cage, didn't he suffer the same treatment? It's just that the butcher can still Vent on the pig, what can the pig do?
None of us are gods, but somehow other Earthlings live and die. It's not that you don't report it, the time has not come. It's a pity that when the retribution is obtained, it is likely to be the effect of burning jade and stone.
For most of the poor people who are also waiting to be slaughtered, apart from desperately struggling to survive, how can there be time to take care of lower-level animals? Earthlings only revealed a fact of powerlessness.

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    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.