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If we are ever in doubt we
find some certainty in instinct. Somewhere
deep in our psyche, instinct confirms our decisions so that we feel safer. In return we use instinct again to keep us on
an even keel and avoid being violent. We
live in peace, but another force in us, that dares us forward, urges us to
explore the unknown, to get into self-discovery.
Animal Rights and Animal
Liberation is all about that. Instinct
tells us that we should be working on a central principle, the need for freedom,
for ourselves and therefore for others too, human and non-human. And because it’s so obviously right, that
slavery is so obviously wrong, we draw strength from within to defend the need
to liberate, to end slavery. And if
others don't agree, then that instinctive strength prevents our becoming
hypersensitive to criticism. However
ugly people's responses are to what we say, we know that it never matches the
ugliness of what we’ve seen, hidden, in the animal gulags.
But instinct also has a way
of detaching us from the real world, and we need to keep our feet on the
ground. So, if I have found out
something important, it doesn’t mean anyone else wants me preaching to them
about it. They have the right to be left
in peace. So, we need to find ways of
respecting that before we ever get to the point of pushing our point of view. If someone can arrive at the same conclusion as
we have, of their own free will, then they can move on at their own pace, and
not be held back by their resentment of being preached-at.
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