Carl Safina Quotes

People In Japan And The Faeroe Islands Kill Dolphins And Pilot Whales By Running Steel Rods Into Their Spinal Columns While They Squeal In Pain And Terror And Thrash In Agony. (In Japan, It's Illegal To Kill Cows And Pigs As Painfully And Inhumanely As They Kill Dolphins.) The Lack Of Compassion For Dolphins And Whales Indicates That Humans' "theory Of Mind" Is Incomplete. We Have An Empathy Shortfall, A Compassion Deficit. And Human-on-human Violence, Abuse, And Ethnic And Religious Genocide Are All Too Pervasive In Our World. No Elephant Will Ever Pilot A Jetliner. And No Elephant Will Ever Pilot A Jetliner Into The World Trade Center. We Have The Capacity For Wider Compassion, But We Don't Fully Live Up To Ourselves. Why Do Human Egos Seem So Threatened By The Thought That Other Animals Think And Feel? Is It Because Acknowledging The Mind Of Another Makes It Harder To Abuse Them? We Seem So Unfinished And So Defensive. Maybe Incompleteness Is One Of The Things That "makes Us Human.

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