As a Chinese, you have absolutely no right to condemn the Japanese in Dolphin Bay.
Everyone knows how dogs are treated in China.
Needless to say, the whole city was killed with a single order. There is no need to delve into such things as eating "vegetable dogs". To this day, I know of many rural families who end up burying their dogs in their wombs. Eating your own pet is colder and more chilling than killing an unfamiliar dolphin.
The brutality of the killing? Have you seen the process of butchering and skinning a dog? A typical home-run dog skinning involves tying the dog's legs to a fixture (such as a large tree), cutting a circle around the thigh, and pulling it off the head like a pullover.
Quantity? 23,000 dolphins are slaughtered every year in Dolphin Bay. The number of dogs slaughtered and eaten in China is probably underestimated by multiplying this number by 100 every year.
So what's the difference between a dog and a dolphin?
Answer 1: Pet dogs are more comfortable in the city than some people, and it is the vegetable dogs that are eaten.
Answer 1: Performing dolphins are more comfortable in the aquarium than some people, and it is the vegetable dolphins in the Dolphin Bay who are eaten.
Answer 2: Dolphins are intelligent creatures. Self-aware, emotional, and friendly to people.
Answer 2: Anyone who has ever raised a dog knows that a dog's self-awareness, its delicate emotions, and its friendliness are basically unmatched by any animal, including dolphins. As for intelligence, dogs may not be as good as dolphins, but their intelligence is negligible compared to humans, there is no essential difference, and there is no possibility of being equal to humans.
Answer 3: Dolphins are wild animals, dogs are domestic animals.
Answer 3: Most dolphins in captivity die well, and wild dogs are the best target to kill for meat. So domestic and wild have nothing to do with being able to kill and eat indiscriminately.
Answer 4: Dolphins will become extinct if they are killed too much, and dogs will be killed endlessly.
This is the most simple and sincere answer, and it is logically much stronger than the above nonsense answers. Yet the scientific fact is that bottlenose dolphins (the kind in Dolphin Bay) are in decline, but they are not endangered.
Let's assume another situation: if dolphins are abundant, the current level of killing will not affect its species safety at all.
So, are we not going to condemn Dolphin Cove?
It's a good film, and the art of the film itself is excellent, but it's really on such a serious subject that it's too specific to dolphins, too indulgent to its own sensibility, and too unreflective of its own moral high ground. Thus weakening its rigor. It is practically understandable to promote tricks such as dolphin meat poisoning to the Japanese, but logically vulnerable. Is dolphin meat not poisonous, can such slaughter be carried out? Could it be that Japan could eat a lot before the oceans were polluted by industry?
The Japanese are killing dolphins, the Chinese and Koreans are killing dogs. Harvesting bile from live bears, eating raw monkey brains, beating seals with sticks, cutting off shark fins and throwing sharks back into the sea to let them starve to death, keeping chickens in close cages, etc., such cruel tragedies are staged in every corner of the world. Regardless of the East and the West, Japan and China.
In terms of protecting the natural environment and living in harmony with animals, the West is indeed ahead of civilization compared to the East. This must be acknowledged.
But the macro fact remains the idealist minority of the whole of humanity against the majority, cold appetite and economic interests of the whole of humanity. There are no national differences.
If you condemn the killings in Dolphin Cove, I am your steadfast ally. But it's not because you and I are Chinese, the filmmakers are Westerners, and the killers are Japanese. I refuse to accept such a reason. Because almost every nation is a participant in these crimes.
The only reason is that we are all human.
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