Myth # 05 : " The suffering of animals doesn ' t bother me ."
Myth # 05 : " The suffering of animals doesn ' t bother me ."
Friends , your choice to refuse to empathize with the suffering of others is nothing to brag about , and actually runs contrary to the greater moral awareness with which you were born , as well as the fundamental moral awareness you still possess within you to this day . Indeed , even if moral awareness becomes repressed later in adulthood , every child knows full well that all sentient beings deserve to be treated with the same basic expressions of justice & the same basic expressions of respect .
And deep within , you too still know that this is true . Deep within , you know that it is not right to cause other beings to suffer merely to satisfy your own desires for pleasure or amusement or comfort ... Indeed , if you do not recognize these things , then you have chosen – for all practical purposes – to live as a sociopath . And yet I refuse to believe that this is so . I will instead go to my grave erring on the side of believing that deep down – past the thick veneers of societal & cultural indoctrination – you too still know what is right and good and decent ; that you too still know that even if we don ’ t happen to like the members of a particular species – or think they are attractive ; or want to play or cuddle with them ; or choose to respect their unique expressions of intelligence or their palpable desires to live – that you too still know that there are fundamental standards of correctness & decency that simply must be shown to all beings .
Indeed , justice is not merely for those we happen to like or those for whom we feel affection … No , justice is for everybody . My Friends , all species of animals – human & non-human alike – have the same basic right to live free from all forms of exploitation & free from all forms of violent abuse .
Please wake up to this fact … and then please act accordingly . Thank you .
Current status of this Myth : Illuminated Justification it provides for eating animals : NONE
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