Last week, we talked a lot about the differences between killing dolphin and another animal.
Although most of students in seminar class said that it does not matter what kind of animal are they, they are absolutely the same, because they have their own life and soul. If we say they are not different from those reasons. And then why there are still a lot of complaining about whale killing? It probably come to the question that is it because of their cuteness make some differences?
However, I think it might be because of the attitudes toward animal. Cow and chicken have been seen as animal for eating, on the contrary, the dolphins have been viewed as intelligent and showing animal. In my opinion, the way the way they were being killed, the result,which is their death ,is the same. The way cows were being killed may be either the same or even more merciless, but we haven't seen it with our own eyes. Or we know it, but we just ignore because we still want to eat them. In case of cows and pigs, they have been fed to be killed, sold and eaten. Wasn't it sad? It is worse than dolphin case, at least the dolphin can live as long as they wish and if they are not killed, they can stay longer. By the way, the attitude toward animal makes it different. The reason why this case have been the problem is attitude toward dolphins.
Dolphins have been seen as an intelligent and adorable animal. Apart from that, they are widely known as a good show animal. General people never think that their meat can be eaten.
We can see in the seminar class as well that some of Japanese student have ever eaten whale meat while they were in their junior high school. It mean that they didn't despised it at that time. A lot of critic from foreign countries where they are against, it did effected their opinions. Could we imagine if they is none of news about banning whale killing, Japanese will eat and kill them freely or not?
We have also seen that a lot of Japanese protest arised and against the movie, what is the reason behind that? They still want to eat dolphin or they don't want to be look bad in world view?
Thank you for these thoughtful comments. I am particularly interested in what you wrote about the news and about the protests in Japan against the movie. In regard to the news, I think that the impression that we get from the news is not always accurate. Sometimes an issue is made to seem very big in the news even though the number of people who feel very strongly about it is small. My impression about the protests in Japan is that the protesters are particularly angry about the fact that the criticism is coming from foreigners; perhaps they would react slightly differently is the criticism came from within Japan.
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