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Originally Posted by eeyore  I dont belive that there is any excuse for this kind of cruelty or that it has anything to do with being "disconected from the land" some people are just sick int head.
and to see the incidence used to promote a total irrelevant book shocks me more than words can say |
It is certainly not my intention to use such cruelty to promote an irrelevant book (or any book for that matter). I felt the book was very relevant as it informed my opinion, so wanted to share it with anyone interested in similar subject matter; but I am sorry that you are so shocked, I repeat, that was in no way my intention.
I do stand by my email for in my view people are a product of parents, culture and society and it is MY belief that as a society we have become disconnected from nature(which I think can be thought of as the same thing as self) and that this will be magnified through each generation. I believe this is bad and at the root of much of the 'violence' we see against the earth and animals. People are not 'just sick in the head' -that is far too simplistic and convenient. Something happens to make them 'sick in the head' and we all have a part in that.
If you consiously choose to inflict pain on any organism, I believe that person to be mentally unhealthy - and the root of that is parents, society, and culture, and the root of that is parents etc etc. For that reason I think cruelty and violence (against animals, each other, nature) has to be addressed at the macro-level not at that of the individual. We have been locking people up and the rest, for ages and still struggle to realise that we cannot teach non-violence through violence.
How do we hope to make the world a better place with a starting point of 'some people are just sick in the head'? If ever there was, as you call it, an 'excuse for such cruelty' then that is it! It leaves us nowhere to go but to lock them up and wait for the next one, and the next one.... I'm not suggesting perpetrators are not bought to book or that we should not be outraged. But what I would like to suggest (probably not very eloquently) is that we all need to consider what the triggers are that cause another human being to behave in this way, so that we can begin the work needed to make sure it does not keep happening.