Humans are not dead, the earth is restless

Zelma 2022-09-25 23:14:46

There is an idiom in China called "If Qingfu does not die, Lu will not end", and it is put on the core issue revealed by this film, that is, "Humanity will not die, the earth will be restless".
These bloody images are the blood proof of the self-proclaimed human beings who enslaved, persecuted, and slaughtered other species. Those desperate eyes and unwilling twitches are the silent indictments of our savage species by beings other than human beings.
I watched it very hard because I couldn’t watch it anymore. Every time I saw humans wielding butcher knives and sticks, torture and slaughter animals, I would have hallucinations, as if I saw Japanese invaders in Nanjing, Nazis in Auschwitz, The atrocities of the white pioneers in North America, and of all the conquerors, in the conquered lands.
Humans treat other species that seem to be inferior to themselves, so what face can they claim to be civilized people?
It is not easy to be a truly conscientious person. Although a gentleman can go far away from the kitchen to show his loftiness, but a gentleman can still eat stinky and happy, this does not hinder his inner peace, because he cannot see the blood in the slaughterhouse, the screams of despair, the pain of pain. Convulsions, no smell of stench, no breath of filthy, choking air, no feeling of crowded spaces, and his conscience, because he can't see this hellish scene, comfortably takes advantage of the animals that have just been slaughtered The corpse of the corpse, and then smeared the lips of the oil star, using this bloody mouth to educate others to be a gentleman who kills in a civilized manner rather than a villain wielding a butcher knife. In this, is there any difference between the despicableness of a gentleman and a villain? ?
The slaughterhouse erected a thick wall because we didn't want people to know the secret of the slaughter, and we erected a wall outside our conscience because we didn't want to have a psychological burden. Then we said that a gentleman is far from a kitchen, and we think we are taller than animals. Wait, actually, we're all Nazis, for the underdogs.
To be honest, I was considering whether to become a vegetarian in the future. It was a difficult choice. I couldn’t help but scolded me for my hypocrisy and selfishness. Because of this, animals have to continue the journey of Auschwitz in their lives. , and I am also one of the many accomplices.

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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.