Ethics
September 29th 2011 21:00
It’s something I’ve always wondered about. Interestingly, Fred independently had the same thought. It’s to do with nature documentary film crews. As we all know, the camera crew simply film animals killing and eating one another. What Fred and I have been wondering about is whether the film crew should actually stop the killing in the first place.
This came about after I was telling Fred about a scene from the Great Migrations documentary series that had recently screened on Channel 7. An antelope had just delivered a calf. The mother waited for the calf to stand but it was too weak. Meanwhile, a group of hyenas waited nearby. The mother kept waiting and waiting for her calf to rise. In the end, she had to walk away. Now that the calf was totally defenceless, the hyenas then pounced. You can imagine what happened next.
“It was one of the saddest things I’ve ever seen,” I told Fred. “Imagine being eaten alive. I couldn’t think of a worse way to die.”
“Well, the hyenas have to eat. And what about the cameraman? Couldn’t have he have stepped in to save it?”
“I’ve always wondered how ethical it is just to stand there and film animals killing each other.”
“That’s what happens in the wild. We just happen to be at the top of the food chain.”
“Most of the time,” I corrected. “If we were swimming in the ocean and there was a shark nearby, we wouldn’t be.”
“I’m talking about what normally happens. Animals kill each other for food which is why I eat meat.”
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