About the female protagonist "The Virgin".
I thought of it when I started watching the anime.
We humans do not have to eat meat. What we eat is not grown on farms. If one day, all animals also have a certain wisdom and emotion, and say to humans, don't eat us, and live in peace. With absolute power to rule you, would you agree?
We don't have to eat meat either. At least not once did I eat because of a nutritional imbalance, or a lack of energy.
We don't eat it for the high-sounding reason to live, it's just delicious. (Additionally, many people disagree with this one, see Update 1 below)
Humans are packaged from birth. When you take your first bite of meat, it is impossible to know what it is and how it came from. And even if you know, you've never seen the bloody ones, you just think you "know".
We don't eat cats, dogs, or the little goldfish at home. Others condemned such behavior. But we ate chicken, duck and fish in a peaceful way. In fact, there is no difference in essence. As long as you are eating meat, you have no right to blame ghosts.
We are no different from ghosts.
So I don't agree with those who say the heroine is the Virgin. In the real world, because we are ghosts.
Question about position.
If, as a human, you are opposed by chickens, ducks, fish and cattle, will you suppress it with force, or will you decide to become a vegetarian from now on? Even if it is not clearly expressed, we all know that they are naturally painful when they are slaughtered. We all know that they were separated from their families and were born to die. So what will you do?
If you were a chicken and duck, would you resist like Emma and the others? Or die numbly like humans in mass production factories.
In fact, the choice is always simple. If we are at the top of the food chain, we will kill to protect our rights. If we were down the food chain, we would rebel. And the reason why we are so tangled now is because we have opened up a God perspective. We want to have it both ways. In real life, most people are selfish, including me who is writing this now. And what I want to express is not that we should all be compassionate to the common people, have great love, and switch to vegetarianism from now on. Rather, I know that I am indeed selfish.
Regarding the theme of this work, is it extermination or peaceful coexistence.
Ghosts won't give up eating humans, just like humans won't give up eating meat. Ghosts also have absolute power, just like humans suppress animals.
Should people be exterminated for eating meat? As a human being, it seems impossible to say.
This is the truth hidden under the calm lake of our lives. We are killing every day. As long as you eat meat, there is no difference between you and a ghost. Everyone in this murder, make up for their own knife.
So what the little angel Emma gives is, leave the special ghosts behind, and humans go back. This is the only way out. The two closely intertwined races in the biological chain have no future of coexistence. The only variable is the little angel. . .
About wars and labels
We always love to put labels on. It's an almost ridiculous, common idea too. In every group, there are some good people and some trash. It's the same with people and ghosts. We are always used to being partial. Some bad people have done bad things, so they feel that this group is all bad people, so in the process of revenge, they hurt some good people.
Hate is baseless and self-righteous.
The person who killed those children is the ghost of the wicked, and the person who saved the children is the ghost of the good. But because they are all ghosts, they should be bound and labeled as a group? This is the "imagined community" that is very common in our lives. (I really hope that everyone can Baidu this word to understand what it means.)
War starts from this collectivism, and groups are built on this foundation. We have the same enemies, and we have the same people to protect. Even part of our enemy may have never harmed us. Even those we want to protect have deeply hurt each other. Then the hatred begins to cycle, and the damage never ends.
Whether it’s the discussion between Yuanmingyuan and Notre Dame, or the surging hatred of Japan on Weibo, we can’t tell who hurt who, but we feel that “they” all owe “us”. Who are "we"? I don't know, I was just born on land that happened to be on this side of the border.
At last.
The actress who plays Amy is vegan. She said she knew the factories, the environment there, so she decided to become a vegetarian. I admire people like her. From the values, I understand that I am also a ghost, a member of this carnage. But I can't. I'm a meat lover, but at the same time I'm also a person who doesn't like to kill. This paradoxical hypocrisy, fused into my body, has been selectively ignored by me.
I watched a variety show two days ago and wanted to make children who hate eating fish like eating fish to reduce waste. The first step the host did was to let the children watch the fishing in person, watch it catch and be cut into pieces. I think this step is too wrong. If you were one of those kids, would you be able to eat it?
I might not be able to eat it on the spot.
But getting out of that place and going out to a sushi restaurant around the corner, I could eat again without any problems.
Because when I pretend I can't see all this, I feel so at ease!
Update 1: It's impossible not to eat meat
Many people say that it is impossible for people not to eat meat. I also don't want to study this problem theoretically.
There are only two fundamental questions: First, do you know what the minimum amount of meat you need to maintain your body?
Second, have you abided by this minimum and made an effort not to exceed it? (Not by "you think you want to eat"). Or, have you restrained yourself from eating meat for a long time simply because you feel bad for animals?
I just want to express that there are only a few who can do these two things. Most people eat meat, not for physical reasons.
Update 2: Animals have no intelligence, no culture
At this time, I would like to ask you to imagine a mentally retarded person, a person with Alzheimer's disease, or a vegetative person. There are some human beings who are mentally ill, and we are gentle to these people, and we will never use violence or abuse.
why?
Because they can feel the pain.
Empathy allows us to feel how saddened we are if these things happen to us, our loved ones.
We can feel the pain of defective humans, the pain of captured sharks, the pain of whales, the pain of broken ivory, the pain of ripped fur, the pain of all cute animals,
But I can't feel the pain of chickens, sheep, cows and pigs.
Do you feel sad and sad when you eat today, do you feel uneasy?
I do not have. I just enjoyed them so much that I forgot that they used to have feelings.
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