I´m tired of justifying my beliefs
I have read the text “I´m tired of justifying my beliefs”
It is written as an article by Anil Dollomonni and it
is about animal rights and how we keep our eyes closed for all the horrible
things happening to the animals. In the text she tells a lot of her own
opinions but also straight up clear facts about the subject.
In the beginning of the text she writes that she isn’t
sorry for justifying what she stands for, which is that it is wrong to hurt and
kill animals. Because we do hurt and kill animals, it´s not an opinion, it is a
pure fact we have to understand and stop deny.
Alto the main subject of this text is poaching, which
means hunting extinct animals. And the animals she talks about in this text are
rhinos and elephants.
She starts off by saying that she is not attacking the
poaching people´s behavior, but their ignorance and complacency. I really love
that she did that, because just like her I think that´s the problem. I think
questioning someone´s ignorance is more effective than questioning someone
behavior.
She also tells us the reasons behind why people poach.
Often because of economic reasons. Elephant´s and rhino´s tusks and horns are
worth a lot of money.
The tusks are exclusive and in China have they become
a trend to own. People are willing to pay a lot of money for them
The rhino horns are as well worth a lot of money
So she tells us these horrific stories about how the
tusks and horns are being remove, and the worst part is that she writes that
she is used to reading these stories. Reading that made me really sad and
angry. It made me question how this can be normal. How can these horrible
things happening to the animals be normal and happen often. And we just close
our eyes and ignore what is happening.
She says that stopping this is pretty much impossible
but we have to do what we can. Through an educational process spread our
knowledge and perspective. Alto it may take a long time, which is a problem
because time might be what the animals don’t have much of.
She says that we can find likeminded people and
together do what we can.
I loved this text. In the future I´m definitely going
to fight for animal rights. I´m already making a statement by not eating meat. Reading
this text I realized that a lot of things she stands for is also things that I stand
for, it was nice having someone else putting words on my own thoughts.
The text never got boring, Anil kept it interesting
from the very first word to the last. It really reached out to me, which I think
was her main goal when writing the text. She wanted her readers to feel
something, which is what needs to happen if we ever are going to make a change.
I think this is a subject we don’t pay enough
attention to. We need to question the fact that we treat rapists and murderers
better than we treat the most innocent beings on our planet. And whit “our planet” I don’t mean we humans, I mean
we all together. Because that’s how things should be, at least according to me.
