Views on MAN and animals
By Dr kcorsnamuh*
By Dr kcorsnamuh*
(Dr kcorsnamuh is a fictional character created by shrompy who is supposed to be pro-humans and anti-animals.)
Are you extremely afraid of snakes, fish, spiders and gorillas? Well, you should be if you have watched films like Anaconda, King Kong, Piranhas, Eight-legged freaks and the like. Or are you the exact opposite? – do you simply love sheep, horses, birds, dogs, tigers, monkeys, hamsters etc as you have watched films like Ace Ventura Pet Detective or Doctor Do-little? But do you notice that in all the above mentioned films MAN is usually the one who put things right; MAN is usually the protagonist of the film.
As quoted by Swami Vivekananda, “Man is born to rule nature, not to follow it”. That is also exactly my view on this topic. Man is capable of thinking and ruling. He is not a ‘dumb’ animal that wouldn’t speak up for itself. He has the ‘ability’, ‘brains’ and ‘power’ to undo wrong and nab all the ‘baddies’. Therefore, it seems only logical that man is usually the protagonist in the films—and that is also what the audience expects.
Innocent minds are brought up believing that all animals are dangerous or on the other extreme, docile. Worse off, they may even believe that harmless animals are dangerous. They subconsciously see that man is usually ‘the guy who saves the day’. Therefore, they realize that man rules nature.
Have you ever seen animals being the presidents of countries? How about being a member of the parliament? No, you haven’t? See? It is quite obvious that man belongs to a much higher class than animals, thus he has the right to rule them. All in all, (in my opinion), humans rock!
Are you extremely afraid of snakes, fish, spiders and gorillas? Well, you should be if you have watched films like Anaconda, King Kong, Piranhas, Eight-legged freaks and the like. Or are you the exact opposite? – do you simply love sheep, horses, birds, dogs, tigers, monkeys, hamsters etc as you have watched films like Ace Ventura Pet Detective or Doctor Do-little? But do you notice that in all the above mentioned films MAN is usually the one who put things right; MAN is usually the protagonist of the film.
As quoted by Swami Vivekananda, “Man is born to rule nature, not to follow it”. That is also exactly my view on this topic. Man is capable of thinking and ruling. He is not a ‘dumb’ animal that wouldn’t speak up for itself. He has the ‘ability’, ‘brains’ and ‘power’ to undo wrong and nab all the ‘baddies’. Therefore, it seems only logical that man is usually the protagonist in the films—and that is also what the audience expects.
Innocent minds are brought up believing that all animals are dangerous or on the other extreme, docile. Worse off, they may even believe that harmless animals are dangerous. They subconsciously see that man is usually ‘the guy who saves the day’. Therefore, they realize that man rules nature.
Have you ever seen animals being the presidents of countries? How about being a member of the parliament? No, you haven’t? See? It is quite obvious that man belongs to a much higher class than animals, thus he has the right to rule them. All in all, (in my opinion), humans rock!
reference: http://members.rediff.com/bbn/qq.html
written by shrompy
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