“Do you feel any guilt or remorse for the livestock you consume? Have you ever thought about how those animals become the food you eat? …Your reaction isn’t very rational. If you don’t like the things you saw just now, I’m afraid you’re missing the big picture. Humans chose livestock to be food. In exchange, they’re fed, allowed to reproduce and protected from predators all their lives. Cows, pigs, and chickens have a much higher rate of survival in captivity, more than they would in the wild. So you see, the relationship is mutually beneficial for both parties.” — Kyubey, Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica
I think most people would tell you that we wouldn’t accept that.
I also think that many, and maybe even most, would accept it.
And I think, looking around the US and much of the rest of the world, if we merely substitute “wealthy and empowered people” for “aliens,” most already have accepted it.
Humans do not live 1/4 of their life span like the animals do in the animal agriculture industry however wealth inequality has certainly shaved off the years off the average life span.
That seems a really narrow basis on which to judge it.
Much more broadly, the wealthy and empowered few view the rest of us as essentially livestock insofar as they see us solely as resources to be exploited for profit and only supplied with the bare minimum necessary for the survival of the hardiest and most profitable members of the herd.
That seems a really narrow basis on which to judge it.
This a vegan community, we focus on the issues of animals.
Ah… sorry. I didn’t even notice which community this was in.
Well, the question was about humans and aliens?
If the technology gap between aliens and humans was the same as between humans and animals, could we even stop them? Give or take a few generations, it’d simply become a fact of life.
