What you are actually Saying … (02/28/15)
I have found that most folks truly are Good & Kind & Caring, and as such, I have also found that most folks tend to attempt to justify any of their behaviors that are exposed to be inadvertently cruel or callous.
And this makes sense — for people not only want to be seen as Good by others, they want to to believe that they are actually BEING Good as well. And so they defend themselves when called out to the contrary, often without even realizing that what they are saying in self-defense is patently hypocritical &/or completely illogical … And because I have a profound Faith in the innate Goodness of humanity; and because I most certainly believe that all of you truly desire to be Kind & Caring & Responsible & Decent people, I thought it might be a nice service to provide this re-minder as to what you are ACTUALLY saying whenever you attempt to defend your use (& therefore your abuse) of animals.
My dear Friends, humanity has been sleeping behind the wheel on the issue of animal cruelty for FAR too long, and as a consequence our species is sending all life on this planet hurtling rapidly towards a very steep & most deadly cliff … And if we are to change course in time, it is high-time for us to collectively wake up and take drastic action.
I am striving with all my strength these days to facilitate this change — trying desperately to turn the wheel and steer us away from the immense catastrophe that looms before us. And yet I clearly am not strong enough to do it alone …
I am not afraid to publicly admit it: I will need some help to keep us from plummeting to disaster … So won’t you please help me?
(P.S. Thanks in advance.)
“We live in a society governed by laws that are largely aimed at discouraging behaviors that persist as reflections of our baser instincts: stealing, manipulating, enslaving, beating, raping, killing, etc … The fact that these behaviors still occur so frequently, even when stigmatized as “immoral” and denounced as “criminal”, is surely proof that they are instinctual on some primitive level. Of course, this phenomenon is also evidence that a behavior’s being instinctual has no bearing whatsoever on whether or not it is good or right or ethical. Indeed, we have both moral and immoral instincts — impulses that are sometimes kind and generous, sometimes violent and cruel. And therefore to live an ethical life means to strive to thwart our baser, selfish instincts — those that cause harm and injury to others — and to cultivate those behaviors that promote the well-being of all others.” ~ inspired by Ashley Capps
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