enter the monster

Behaviour that isn’t obviously harmful, is different to behaviour that is. Sex outside marriage or homosexuality may be considered immoral in some societies but it’s hardly unethical. Rape and murder, however always is. It’s the authorisation of certain things as being morally okay when they’re obviously wrong, that makes us lose our confidence in authority and in society’s standards of morality. Watching chickens hanging upside down shackled to a conveyer which is taking them into the cutting blades is so obviously immoral, that for a society not to outlaw it makes people lose faith in its whole take on morality. Vested interests lay the rules it seems. People must eat chicken! In order to get people to cooperate, authorities convince them that what might seem unethical is in fact quite moral. For most people that’s the green light to go ahead, because it’s been morally okayed. Similarly when a society says that polluting the atmosphere or spoiling the environment is necessary for the progress of modern society, it becomes the norm and eventually it is no longer questioned. This is why thinking, caring people are beginning to turn their backs on their own society. Vegans, for instance, boycott all animal products. They reckon drastic action is called for in these circumstances. Animal Rights is a wake up call on an ethic, on a natural instinct gone awry. In the beginning, we may have hunted animals on foot, with pointy sticks. It wasn’t very efficient but it worked to some extent on the predator-predated principle. All animals, humans included, lived together that way. Then as time passed, humans overstepped the mark. We stopped being predators and became monsters. It’s this monsterisation of human nature that vegans refuse to be part of. The violence has gone berserk.