Animal abuse

Animal cruelty is the term describing any act which causes suffering or scourges to any animal. There are many contradicting theories which determine what animal cruelty is. For example, the animal welfare association decided that there isn’t anything wrong in using animals for human purpose: food, clothing, research, entertainment.but it should be done in a human way, which reduces any unnecessary anguish.  Animal rights expressed their opinion with great derogatory against the use of the words “human” and “unnecessary” since they have got lots of interpretation. Moreover, they concluded that the only way to end definitely the suffering of these poor creatures and to ensure their protection is to end their status as properties and to end their use as commodities. 

In many countries animal abuse is considered a crime and the suspect may be sentenced to jail. Its laws are only designed to protect animals from their owners or anyone’s cruelty. In Switzerland, where the strictest animal protection law ever known, there is a law informing owners the right size of a rabbit cage and how much the dog should exercise. However, in many countries more lax than Switzerland, like Italy and Germany the person causing pain to the animals could enter jail for up to three years and pay a fine of a minimum range of 3.000 Euros.

To conclude, animals do have feel pain, anguish cold, high temperature, etc. So don’t you ever think that because they can’t express their feelings that they don’t have any. In fact, we should be more careful since we cannot know when they are hurting. And always remember that causing suffering a helpless doesn’t make you any stronger it only makes you more ruthless, pitiless and vicious.       

Civil disobedience

Civil disobedience is a form protest against some laws, demands or commands of a certain government. It’s usually a nonviolent civil resistant act. To reach an active civil disobedience, theories say that protestors may choose to break deliberately some laws like occupying illegally a place or making a peaceful blockade. However, the activist should always expect a violent reaction from the authorities like getting beaten, attacked or even arrested. So lots of them undergo training on how to react peacefully when abused. Moreover, lots of rules were outlined by Gandhi, when he was leading a civil resistant to obtain India’s independence from Britain, not to express any anger, surrender personal property when confiscated by the authorities but refuse to surrender property held in trust, to accept being arrested by the authorities, protect officials from assaults, to restrain oneself from cursing, swearing and insulting, to obey the opponents orders and to never retaliate are all rules that were never pardoned when broken.  There are many reasons why someone may decide to start a civil disobedience, however Ronald Dworkin an American philosopher settled down three types of civil resistant:

·         “Integrity-based" civil disobedience happens when someone believes that a certain law is immoral.

·         "Justice-based" civil disobedience occurs when a citizen wants to lay claim to some right denied to him.

·         "Policy-based" civil disobedience transpires when a person breaks the law in order to change a policy he believes is wrong in a dangerous manner.

The first type was indeed used in the case of northerners who declined a law that imposed a citizen to turn over any slaves who escaped to authorities.  The second type was used when black people all around the world demanded equality before the law. To conclude it’s not important how laws could be immoral, or how wrong could they be. However it’s important to be really civilized while claiming your rights.  

My role model

Being a Discovery channel fanatic and a nature lover, it’s sure that my role model is Bear Grylls. He is an English adventurer, writer and TV presenter. He became well known for his series Man vs Wild, it’s a survivor show which shows the people how to take advantage of whatever you can find to survive in places like Alaskan Mountain Range, Iceland, Borneo Jungle, Mojave Desert, Guatemala, etc. I remember one episode he had to cross a frozen river, so he took off his clothes and jumped right into it, its temperature was about -30 degrees Celsius, for god’s sake. I remember another episode where he wanted to fish and he didn’t have any hook so he used his hand as a one to catch a cat fish. He actually had to kill it to get his hand out of its mouth. Moreover, he had lots of other achievements: in 1998 Bear entered the Guinness Book of Records, as the youngest Briton, at 23, to summit Mount Everest. He also was named in 2009 the youngest chief scout ever. Actually, he’s only my role model because of his persistence and his   boldness. He has a great spirit he can be eating a raw frog and say that it tastes like chicken. After all, what really matters is his spirit.