Ra's Statements About 2D Entities

[Diana]

The system of exploitation has to be replaced completely before any progress will be made on the front of animal welfare. As long as profit is the motive for action animals will continue to be exploited, since as we've seen it's quite easy for business lobbyists to drum up demand for animal products. How can we convince people not to exploit animals when they are complicit in the exploitation of their fellow human beings? We must put our own house in order and if we can develop a more compassionate society than that compassion will necessarily extend to our animal other-selves.

I'm not sure why you think you can't have compassion for, and address the exploitation of, all life forms. We make choices, one at a time, every day. Why just humans?

Why is it the business lobbyist's fault, or capitalism's fault? These are problems, and there is a large "asleep" and anesthetized population of humans out there doing what they're told. I agree we couldn't tell them much of anything. But what about the more awake, compassionate humans who are seeking to evolve and help this planet evolve? That's why wanderers are here, is it not?

Profit is based on supply and demand. If a person buys meat, they participate in adding to demand. So, you are saying that until we transform capitalism and profit-mongering it's okay to exploit animals? In other words, eat meat no matter how much suffering it causes, because we are focusing on human problems only?

I couldn't do that. I have compassion for all things, and I don't think humans are more important than anything else. Humans are culpable though, of this mess we've made. And in that sense I agree that we have to clean up that mess. But I don't agree that we ignore other life forms in the process.