Also, note that this is a joke. but it is likely that the way the world is presented to children uses animals as innocent creatures that would be kind if left alone. This is just not true, a hungry bear will eat a human. Sorry yogi, it's true. Also, when people are portrayed, in typically adult films, there's usually a lot more bad guys killed than good guys. And they're bad. So you don't feel sad when they die since they were evil.
But a bear will kill you to eat you or to protect its family. We kill animals for sport. We kill each other for even less.
So yeah, in that sense, animals are "innocent."
Bears will also kill bc you have some coke in your trunk. Many a hungry camper had gotten in the way of a hungry bear and never lived to tell the story. The wild is ruthless, humanity can be but is not always. Which is why I didn't cry when bambi died but did at the end of mulan.
You must unlearn what you have learned.
why do animal perspectives make me feel sadder than human ones?
- 15/04/2011 11:53:43 PM
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Re: Because you lack empathy?
- 16/04/2011 12:01:32 AM
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erm, empathy to human characters?
- 16/04/2011 12:06:27 AM
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Why is that?
This doesn't happen to me... I don't think. 
- 16/04/2011 03:37:25 AM
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- 16/04/2011 03:37:25 AM
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Interesting... Could be because you are more emotional about animals than people?
- 16/04/2011 10:08:00 PM
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possibly, like i always feel more sorry for the dog
- 17/04/2011 03:54:58 PM
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There are tons of people who feel like you do. They are mostly in animal rescue.... *NM*
- 17/04/2011 04:35:11 PM
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Because liberals have brainwashed you
- 18/04/2011 08:43:19 AM
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Hmm.
- 18/04/2011 06:29:32 PM
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Re: Hmm.
- 18/04/2011 06:32:45 PM
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