Sep 20, 2008

Quincy Shen: Do you mind to kill other lives?

"As a softy who is scarcely able to take a knife to a raw chicken-let alone hold it to a person's throat- I was surprised, embarrassed, and dismayed all at once."

This is a quote from "Just Walk on By: Black Men and Public Space."
It is unexceptional to comprehend why a broad six feet two inches black man would feel scare to row chicken. In the same situation, you might feel better if someone else served as a executioner instead of your position at that cruel moment. Because that poor victim's life was taken by that guy but not you although the consequence was the same.
Looking at those small and weak animals gradually forfeit their lives with unceasingly struggles in your secure blood-spattered hands. Maybe some people were feeling abashed or could not undergo that process of killing. Especially facing to those animals who have cute, pitiful or weak appearances, such as rabbits and birds. Besides, other animals like pigs are not lucky enough. When they were killed by people in different ghastly ways; we would feel commiseration or nauseatingly? Just like countless ugly insects. For instance, cockroach. People rack their brains to exterminate them; but the results always unpopularity. People kill cockroach because they encroach on advantages of humans. We kill pigs because they can satisfy our demand.
However, Is it our offense to kill animals? We decide their life and death. God decide which one of them should be killed. And God choose what we will be in next lifetime.

1 comment:

Leslie said...

Anyone has his soft side (Leslie)

Even to a huge guy, killing a raw chicken is a tough thing, since anyone might have his soft side, Not because he is weak, but because he treasures life.

Your comments on people's killing the lives of pigs, rabbits, or cockroaches are understandable, but hard to agree on, since it's supposed to be a natural balance in evolution. Or maybe it's God's arrangement to kill them to keep the balance.

Language:
You should be more careful to use words in proper speech of class.
1. "we would feel commiseration or nauseatingly" --> commiserated or nauseous
2. "but the results always unpopularity" --> ?