Monsters Inc.

It is not usual practice for SPEAK to provide links to articles that have appeared on other websites. However, in certain circumstances and where we feel it is appropriate, we do. The following article that appeared in the Guardian newspaper sums up very eloquently and succinctly what we at SPEAK have been saying for many years.

It is a well known fact that those that work in circumstances that involve being cruel to others become desensitised by the abuse they are able to inflict on others. Throughout history we have reams of information and case studies that detail the desensitisation process that occurs in those that are given carte-blanche to hurt others. One only has to look at the concentration camp guards in former Nazi Germany, Croatia or Serbia, and the list could go on, to see this is true. All the examples have one thing in common; the longer people are in a situation where they can wield ultimate power the more desensitised they become to the suffering of others.

Of course one could argue that a person who wants to enter a profession or occupation that inflicts so much pain and cruelty on another sentient creature has to be of a particular mindset in the first place? Let’s face it most people don’t feel comfortable with the suffering of others let alone want to indulge in hands on cruelty themselves. In the case of vivisection, the vivisectors and the animal technicians are nothing more than monsters to the animals they abuse on a daily basis irrespective of the arguments they use to justify their behaviour: it’s probably not being anthropomorphic to believe that to the animals, the vivisectors that are so cruel to them and cause them so much pain are just that, “Monsters”. To those that don’t suffer at the hands of vivisectors it is easy to become deluded into thinking that when animal rights campaigners call vivisectors emotive names that we are somehow being over-emotional. This is easy to say of course when you’re not the one suffering.

The following article comes from someone who was strong enough to be able to pull themselves out of that cycle of abuse and switching off natural feelings against that abuse. As the article suggests, those that indulge in the practice of vivisection have become desensitised to the suffering of others and for most part, the only way they are going to stop is if we drag them away from that cycle of abuse that they are caught up in and are just too weak or just too desensitised to move away from.

Read the article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,,2045354,00.html

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