Insane environuts want to cull 90% of the world’s population.

Why? Would you like to eat on that sadistic way poor animals?!

When I think of my youth after war there was sometimes much cruelty.
We still live a time of peace.
Europe made the choice of peace.
I hope that war will not return home.

Lucy, you’re right. Man is the most cruel animal of all.

Yet, it’s typical how these asians (look what the Japanese do with dolphins and whales) are more cruel towards animals then others. It’s deep-baked in their cultures. One might even say that asians are also alot tougher to eachother. Little empathy to any other creatures.

Nevertheless, you make a good point. There’s no animal more cruel then man. And by saving ourselves, we are prolonging the sickness.

If we look at what is well and beautiful, the world can change in the right direction.

I know, we are the most dangerous species. But I cannot understand how the “culture” must excuse the Asians or another race.

I would like to know if some nation had a cult to cut one human per year on pieces and throw it in a vulcano, it would be also about culture? Culture means that there is some good historical attitude toward a popular for a whole nation usage. Does that mean that every Chinese or Japanese is cruel by tradition? I don`t think so.

Paul, the world changes all the time, but hardly in the right direction. Because most of the people are blind for the problems of the others. Counting plants and animals, not only other people.

You cannot imagine that I know that The devil is very often close to god!
Also I know that there is no other solution than to chose the light, the sun, the smile ... and so.
I have read books of Marie Balmary!
Also I have read a book about Ericksonian hypnosis.
After you change your mind!
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_Erickson
I think you have the same in English on your browser!
You can use his thinking about the crowd!

Well, difficult…and I cannot get most of what you mean here :X

Maybe we need to address a question - why people I getting so cruel? Lack of empathy or?

People do not GET so cruel. They are CRUEL by nature. Everyone is cruel somehow, but the level is different. We all forget that the good must be encouraged…I`m sure that the Earth is notorius in the galaxy.

Johnny said:

“Yet, it’s typical how these asians (look what the Japanese do with dolphins and whales) are more cruel towards animals then others. It’s deep-baked in their cultures. One might even say that asians are also alot tougher to eachother. Little empathy to any other creatures.”

I think you are not reading most of articles on this platform. Europeans and any other regions in the world also have been cruel to animals in history. (you should read more history so that you understand how many species extincted in Asia Pacific because of European colonialism up till 20th century) Whaling is still a problem in Europe too like in Denmark and Iceland, although I admit that Japanese has been recently eager to support commercialisation of whale meat and leading the international whaling allies to support them.

To lay down the Japanese perspective on this whaling issue, it was always a part of culture including indigenous people like Ainu to whale. But this whole culture bloomed after the WWII when the nation had food scarcity under the US pressure to introduce more “western” products like wheat to advance trade relation. Then whale meat was at that time cheap accessible food and that is one reason why this was largely re-introduced into Japanese cuisine throughout the nation. Many people over 30 years old had experienced this culture through their school lunch and so on.  But someone like me who is in their 20th have never had this, hence no reminicing for this period of time.

And to add one thing, many people in Japan do not know about eating dolphins. This is only done in small town in Aichi and you should actually see this coverage done by greenpeace on reactions of Japanese people towards this issue. Whether you believe or not, it is not the representation of whole picture of Japan. I am more against the government which detained two Japanese greenpeace journalists who investigated this issue in grass-roots way.

The biggest problem I see here is actually media, and some people who are intrested in eradicating animal issues by solely concentrating on their point of views and never tries to see from the others’ perspectives. Your view on Asian race is a wonderful example of this surface media coverage you receive through whatever medium you are using.

One another point is that by pointing out all Asians are cruel in general lead you nowhere to solve this issue, but makes more gap of understanding. I think you never even went there but giving only assumptions about the race (probably you had some bad experience with some Asians). I hope you are actually trying to have mutual communication by having understanding of both sides, rather than just big talking about the race and so on.

Cultural differencies may be extended in the future. In the past they were build because of an array of issues, which changed in the natural course of timeline. Denmark or China, Bulgaria or Japan, Black or White and etc. are not the reasons. They are just SAMPLES. Nothing personal about it. We are all cruel in some way, despite of not wanting to admit that. Some of us even have no idea that they are cruel but they are - unconsciously.

It is neither race either skin or kind of question. For me, personally, it is a moral issue, which again (for me) refers to certain views on what is normal, what is not, what is cruel and what is occasional- name it upbringing, views, ideas of life and ethics, world knowledge, time in which I am living. Like, if I would buy frozen fish or I would like to do that like on the video with halfliving one. Motives can be different.

However, in many examples, culture, religion and historical influences mix in a deep and difficult to understand perception. This is the beginning of the prejudices.