The Art of Destroying...
21 February 2010
This was in reaction to a discussion that centered around the fact that there were only 1500 tigers left in India
I turned around and asked her why. To which she answered: “Because I don’t like them. They are man-eaters. They kill other animals.”
This, from a 27 year old came as a surprise to me. But then I surmised…she was not very different from the common person who thought the best way to deal with anything that posed a threat, even in the remotest area of one's mind, was to kill it.
Firstly, her reasoning is faulty. Tigers are predators, meant to kill. Going by this logic, should we exterminate all carnivores in the animal kingdom? Well, then, we must kill ourselves, too. We are the worst threat to earth and everything on it, after all! Secondly, the statement, ‘because I don’t like them…” reeks of extreme self-indulgence. Very human, what!
Must we really think we are the centre of the universe? This thought alone is responsible for our sorry state…even in everyday life.
The end of the road trip left me wondering…what are we? My liking or disliking a thing doesn’t make it right or wrong. Or does it?
Is mankind really that great, having destroyed and survived off that single thought…because I….
The art of destroying is unique to human beings.
12 Comments, Opinions & What Have you!:
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A completely different take on this issue .. Hope it reaches the minds of those uniquely humans .. Sadly, even if we had one tiger left, this could have served to the killers as a statistic to find out where the 'one' is left !!
Here after really long, how have you been ? :)
take care
Sourav .. in love with me and life!! :)
@Sourav: You bet they'd do that! I'm good now, thanks!
Please if you mail me the persons postal address to scarlettpimpernnel@gmail.com i shall send a copy of Man-eaters of Kumaon
Absolutely true! Well written. This should surely reach out to those insane minds who find tigers a burden on earth!
such callous and un-educated (what else can you say?) attitudes will soon set us alongside dinosaurs. i wonder, who will look at human fossils and say "they once roamed this planet"?
such callous and un-educated (what else can you say?) attitudes will soon set us alongside dinosaurs. i wonder, who will look at human fossils and say "they once roamed this planet"?
boy, you sure have some dumb people working in you office....
Humans aren't the only ones to roam the earth. God's creatures , big and small do too. We do enough killing of humans ourselves. So let us start and take a hard look at ourselves first.
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