Last night I had a discussion at my university cafeteria with my friends Wasay, Younus, Samid and Kamran. We had been at the beach that day with the rest of the class, where some of us paid to watch a fight between a snake and a mongoose. At the time I watched the whole exciting encounter with no feeling of guilt. My reasoning:
1. This is simply a live version of what you watch on National Geographic.
2. It's not like what we're doing is unnatural or immoral for either animals. The mongoose and snake have a natural predator-prey relationship. It's a win-win-win situation. The mongoose gets to eat, the handler makes money off of it and we get entertained. And the snake? Well, pardon my French but life's a bitch.
However, the opposition, which consisted of all my friends ganging up on me raised a point that converted me:
What essentially are we paying for? We are paying to obtain a perverted pleasure from the death of another creature. It is irrelevant whether that snake was going to die anyway at the jaws of the mongoose. It is as perverted as watching two humans making out. What they're doing is not perverted (it's natural) but you watching them is. Paying to watch another animal fight to the death with another is just a toned down version of what was done in the arenas in Roman times. Men were thrown to the lions in the circus and the ensuing one-sided battle 'entertained' spectators. It would be okay if you were viewing this to praise the beauty and observe the awesomeness that Allah SWT has put on Earth, but let's face it, that's not what's going on in our minds at the time.
So put a stop to this. Stop paying for this. Encourage others to do the same. What about the jobs you're killing off? Employment should never be an excuse for allowing decadence to continue.
1. This is simply a live version of what you watch on National Geographic.
2. It's not like what we're doing is unnatural or immoral for either animals. The mongoose and snake have a natural predator-prey relationship. It's a win-win-win situation. The mongoose gets to eat, the handler makes money off of it and we get entertained. And the snake? Well, pardon my French but life's a bitch.
However, the opposition, which consisted of all my friends ganging up on me raised a point that converted me:
What essentially are we paying for? We are paying to obtain a perverted pleasure from the death of another creature. It is irrelevant whether that snake was going to die anyway at the jaws of the mongoose. It is as perverted as watching two humans making out. What they're doing is not perverted (it's natural) but you watching them is. Paying to watch another animal fight to the death with another is just a toned down version of what was done in the arenas in Roman times. Men were thrown to the lions in the circus and the ensuing one-sided battle 'entertained' spectators. It would be okay if you were viewing this to praise the beauty and observe the awesomeness that Allah SWT has put on Earth, but let's face it, that's not what's going on in our minds at the time.
So put a stop to this. Stop paying for this. Encourage others to do the same. What about the jobs you're killing off? Employment should never be an excuse for allowing decadence to continue.
3 comments:
ATA-BOY !!
And so are the contemporary ring fights; a toned down version of the Roman times- we have changed GOD of the ARENA with the King of the RING!
The ring does not include the death aspect but never the less is tantamount to the perverted pleasures of the olden times. The common man enjoys and idealizes the staged pain of the WRESTLERS!
Well i am afraid i will have to agree with you, but then when i see the monkey handlers wandering around the markets and begging for money with an excuse that "no one wants to see monkey ticks and an have not eaten for days", only then i find the argument of stopping to pay these animal handlers cruel. So unless there is a system where these people can be trained to do other things, denying them to showcase their skill would be a harsh question.
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