I Am A Very Compassionate Person
Let's just make this clear.
Guys, you don't own the women who've chosen to be with you (and vice versa, but you've already corrected me haven't you?). And parents, you don't own the children you decided to raise. The pets you've chosen to care for didn't ask for it either, so treat them as guests, not as livestock.
There should never be a moment where we consider another conscious being a possession.
Is this way more than we really need to watch out for?
Slavery was the last boggy mire we climbed out of, just one step behind us, and we didn't even know how muddy it was until we cleared the grime from our eyes and looked at what we were just sitting in. Disgusting, right? It might be hard to understand now, but the future populous will feel the same way about us. No doubt we've been improving, and a step in the right direction is progress nonetheless, but how much further will humanity go? How much more ought we be doing right now? Because it's our decision now and our children's heritage tomorrow... so at least for me, I won't blindly accept the norm; I can't believe something's justified just because everyone else is doing it, and I'll never stop questioning the things that appear to be normal for the grievances we've learned to accept.
Can we take our altruism too far? I sure hope so.
Guys, you don't own the women who've chosen to be with you (and vice versa, but you've already corrected me haven't you?). And parents, you don't own the children you decided to raise. The pets you've chosen to care for didn't ask for it either, so treat them as guests, not as livestock.
There should never be a moment where we consider another conscious being a possession.
Is this way more than we really need to watch out for?
Slavery was the last boggy mire we climbed out of, just one step behind us, and we didn't even know how muddy it was until we cleared the grime from our eyes and looked at what we were just sitting in. Disgusting, right? It might be hard to understand now, but the future populous will feel the same way about us. No doubt we've been improving, and a step in the right direction is progress nonetheless, but how much further will humanity go? How much more ought we be doing right now? Because it's our decision now and our children's heritage tomorrow... so at least for me, I won't blindly accept the norm; I can't believe something's justified just because everyone else is doing it, and I'll never stop questioning the things that appear to be normal for the grievances we've learned to accept.
Can we take our altruism too far? I sure hope so.
26-30, M