In a society that allows you to be caring and empathetic towards animals, feeling nothing, or worse, feeling happy or excited at seeing an animal suffering or being killed, is the dysfunctional part. If there’s no need to view animals with indifference or contempt, why would we? It’s a sign of a healthy, functioning brain to feel empathy for sensitive, emotional animals in a world where we have no need to be harsh and indifferent.
DAVID RAMMS: Life is violent, but we’re at a point where we can choose to avoid most violence. We’re among the first humans in history to have that privilege. Why is it a bad thing? To no longer have to be cold, calculated and ruthless towards others?. Our ancestors would have had to make difficult decisions about abandoning or even killing their own family members, probably even their own children. Some would have had to do this more than once. So it’s probably fair to say our ancestors had to be unemotional and closed off out of necessity. At least, life would’ve been easier for them this way, as they had no choice but to partake in deeply upsetting behaviours…
The point is that, sure, maybe most people are too soft today to kill or abandon a child the way some of our ancestors did. They couldn’t do it anymore. That’s obviously a good thing. And how great is it that, for the most part, we no longer have to kill animals or commit acts of violence against them either?… In a society that allows you to be caring and empathetic towards animals, feeling nothing, or worse, feeling happy or excited at seeing an animal suffering or being killed, is the dysfunctional part.
If there’s no need to view animals with indifference or contempt, why would we? It’s a sign of a healthy, functioning brain to feel empathy for sensitive, emotional animals in a world where we have no need to be harsh and indifferent. I’d bet most people would be shocked, or concerned, if they heard their neighbour got a kick out of watching animals suffer. We have examples from all around the world of communities coming together to condemn such behaviour…
More and more people are waking up to the fact that we don’t have to force ourselves or pretend to be indifferent to the cow exploited for her milk, the chicken limping around a barn with 10,000 others living short, painful lives, or the pig suffering from depression because he’s a highly intelligent animal forced to live in confinement, covered in his own faeces.
People are realising we’re allowed to be empathetic. We’re allowed to care. There’s no “well, we have to do this, so better not think too much about it” now, because we don’t have to support this violence anymore. We can be as healthy as we want to be eating an animal-free diet, and we can change the world for these animals. SOURCE
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