Today I saw two grown men in a cart loaded with metal bars whipping their small horse into a frenzy for no reason other than to make it go faster on the open road they were on. Both were laughing hysterically. They whipped past the home for children whose parents either can’t afford them, don't want them or orphaned them.
Not one of the people helping the children even noticed these idiot men beating their horse for no reason. They didn't see that the horse was clipping one of its poorly shod feet on the ground with every stride, on the verge of breaking that leg if it missed a stride or tripped on a hole or crack of which Indian streets are primarily made of. No one even gave the tableau a look. They were too busy caring for children whose parents were incompetent and who will doubtlessly grow up as cruel as those men and as clueless as their caretakers because their caretakers are too blind to see inhumanity enough to teach these children.
This is why I stopped supporting cause for humans a long time ago. Humans are blind even with 20/20 vision. They only see the suffering of their own kind if they even see that. And they seem to completely miss the link between cruelty to animals and cruelty to people. That if people are capable of beating a horse for no particular reason, they are also capable of beating a child, a woman, an elderly person.
Kindness is kindness, respect is respect. These attributes don’t know species or at least they shouldn’t be reserved just for humans.
And here is a note to all you parents out there and you people who stand neutrally by not even trying to prevent the injustices you see in this world even when given clear chances: Just because you don’t commit the injustices doesn’t make your sheet clean. Teach your children that what others are doing is wrong. Teach them what is right. Stop others from committing injustices whenever you can because these people are either teaching your children or someone else's children that injustice is okay even if you say it’s not.
Not one of the people helping the children even noticed these idiot men beating their horse for no reason. They didn't see that the horse was clipping one of its poorly shod feet on the ground with every stride, on the verge of breaking that leg if it missed a stride or tripped on a hole or crack of which Indian streets are primarily made of. No one even gave the tableau a look. They were too busy caring for children whose parents were incompetent and who will doubtlessly grow up as cruel as those men and as clueless as their caretakers because their caretakers are too blind to see inhumanity enough to teach these children.
This is why I stopped supporting cause for humans a long time ago. Humans are blind even with 20/20 vision. They only see the suffering of their own kind if they even see that. And they seem to completely miss the link between cruelty to animals and cruelty to people. That if people are capable of beating a horse for no particular reason, they are also capable of beating a child, a woman, an elderly person.
Kindness is kindness, respect is respect. These attributes don’t know species or at least they shouldn’t be reserved just for humans.
And here is a note to all you parents out there and you people who stand neutrally by not even trying to prevent the injustices you see in this world even when given clear chances: Just because you don’t commit the injustices doesn’t make your sheet clean. Teach your children that what others are doing is wrong. Teach them what is right. Stop others from committing injustices whenever you can because these people are either teaching your children or someone else's children that injustice is okay even if you say it’s not.
This was a very good posting and I completely agree with the entire content. As an Indian myself, I think Indians are some of the most insensitive people on the planet. Not just toward other humans but also animals. It's interesting that Gandhi had said, "A nation is judged by how it treats it's animals", or words to that effect, and for a man so loved and respected, his teachings about love, kindness, humanity and non-violence are ignored.
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