One of the quotes that I love from this book is, "One day we hear on the radio that a women in the suburbs had seen a mountain lion behind her house and had called the police, who shot the animal. Dad got so angry he put his fist through a wall. 'That Mountain lion had as much right to his life as that sour old biddy does to hers,' he said. 'You can't kill something just because it's wild.' " I like it because there's truth to the fact that humans kill things because it's in the wild or because we think it's dangerous. It’s just an interesting thought because I do admit that I understand what the women was thinking. It's like when I see a spider in my house I assume it's dangerous because I naturally don't like spiders and I kill it. When the spider probably ends up eating other bugs and helping me, but I'm to fixating on the fact that I don't want a spider in my house that how it helps me doesn't matter. I guess in killing a life it’s a gray area because there is not right or wrong answer to this, but Is it our fault that we kill things because we think that they pose a threat against us?
I'm not saying that this quote was not written well, It's just there isn't something specific in the writing that I see that makes it special, but that's not the point. The value of this quotes means more to me than how the writing was structured or written. I'm kind of glad she gave a little flashback to this scene because the quote as a whole tells us that even though her dad has drinking problems he is still a decent man. I also, believe not everyone is willing to sympathize with something or someone others are indifferent about.
I agree with your standpoint on this kind of argument. Humans react very spontaneously sometimes, without thinking. The reason humans can more easily kill an animal is we don't think of its life value over our lives or wants. I used to be just like that and kill bugs because i was scared. Now when I think about it an animals' life shouldn't be taken away because we simply don't like it. I like the quote you chose very much :)
ReplyDeleteI agree with your opinion personally on this topic, but I find myself asking, if we really bother with these thoughts if we were in a similar situation ourselves? The more I think about these kind of touchy subjects, the more I realize that we tend to forget our own ideals when our flight-or-fight response is triggered. Most of the time when your are in panic, you will probably go with your first instinct rather than really calming down and delve into some deeper thinking about what you should do in this situation. I'm not really sure what i'm trying to make with this half of my opinion, but I think if we really bothered to calm down when we feel panic at times like this we would probably have a better community. Anyway I do like the quote.
ReplyDeleteI really like this quote as well and I totally agree. People kill animals without the regard of what it might do. People kill bees because they are sacred of getting stung without the proper regard that if you kill them its more harmful then it would be just to get stung. Without bees we wouldn't have pollination, with out pollination we wouldn't have fruits with out fruits we wouldn't have food and we need food to survive. We shouldn't kill something just because we don't like it or your just scared.
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