Enter the monster

Behaviour that isn’t obviously harmful, is different to behaviour that is. Sex before marriage or having homosexual sex may be considered immoral in some societies but most of us in the West wouldn’t consider it unethical. Whereas rape and murder always is.
The big problems occur in societies when there is authorisation for doing certain things and saying that it is morally okay when it is obviously not. This makes us lose our confidence in authority which undermines the cohesion of our society. It makes a nonsense of there being any standards of morality when we see pictures of chickens hanging upside down shackled to a conveyer which is taking them into the cutting blades. That this is legal and so obviously immoral makes one wonder what sort of madhouse we live in. For any sane society not to outlaw such a practice makes people lose faith in its whole take on morality. It shows us how vested interests make up the rules and pass them off as ‘right behaviour’. They will argue that people must eat chicken!
In order to get them to cooperate, authorities have to convince people that what might seem unethical is in fact quite moral. And that suits most people. It gives them 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’s no longer questioned. Is this why thinking, caring people are beginning to turn their backs on their own society? Vegans, for instance, boycott all animal products. Animal Rights is a wake up call. 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. Hunting became massacring, mass imprisonment and mass murder. It’s this monsterising of human nature that vegans refuse to be part of. We are trying to put a break on a violence that has gone berserk.