There's this alien film at the cinema. It looks scaaary..
.. but 90% of movies are scaaary for me so, its beyond the point. What is within the point is the following;
I was trying to think of a good excuse to convince myself I should stop eating meat; the real reasons being that it makes me fat quicker and that how they "grow" the meat today is not altogether too healthy. But the real reason did not stop me from eating it so plan B was to decieve myself with a fake reason. Now that I'm past that phase; yes, it was a stupid plan, but it actually led me to a really good reason why I (and everyone else for that matter) should stop eating meat.
Ok, Goodnight and see you at the next blog post.
Haha, no. Jokes apart. We eat meat, ie: we exterminate other creatures (and the only reason why they are not extinct is that we actually mass produce them so we can eventually exterminate them) because people believe the Survival of the Fittest Theory. Ok, fine. But that equation is nice and comfy because we are the fittest. The chickens that we eat cannot think on the same lines because, hey, they're not the fittest. So, thinking back about the movie, I put in aliens that are actually fitter than human beings into the equation, and surprise! the equation is no longer comfortable. If carnivor aliens had to come along, according to the equation that humans so carefully devised, they would have all the right in the world to eat us. And we would not have any "voce in capitolo". Terrifying and cringing to say the least.
Basically now I get the feeling that the Survival of the Fittest Theory is just a lame excuse that we invented to make us less guilty of killing other creatures.
For now its just a feeling/incling. I'll let it age for a while in my parking lot and see what turns up.. but its definitly some to CHEW ON ..
*munch*
2 comments:
quite interesting thought... may I inquire which film was it?
If you want to watch a really scary movie (not just for the horror element, but for the moral implications and observations), then you should watch District 9. The same line of thought that you put forward here can be arrived at from D9's plot... the only difference being that D9 does not deal with the survival of the fittest on the lion-eats-antelope level or man-mass-produces-chicken level (i.e. predatory instincts) but power relationships and the exploitation of the weakest.
its actually district 9 the movie I was referring to..
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