Monday, May 31, 2010

L'empathie

6 comments:

Gizz said...

I like this one better than the girl with silicon breasts.  I am amazed that the hippo did not eat the deer.  Hippos are very nasty.  TY for this post.

Gizz said...

Ouch  i watched the whole thing.  I am not a PETA person.

cath said...

This is a very moving video, but they overdo the message at the end. I get frustrated by those who claim on the basis of a few incidents that humans are somehow worse than animals.

Foreigner1 said...

Yeah but we are!

We can think an reason and yet we do a bunch of horror and torture to this world and to our own species to such an amount that it even puts Satan himself to shame for not reaching that level of misery...

so said...

Moving video, that's right.

I would have just a doubt about their affirmation at 4'33, when they say that "empathy is stronger than instinct and food chain" ... that may be true 1 time out of 100, but we all saw a lot of images of a leopard killing a defenceless baby gazelle... So, I guess empathy is an exception and the good old "struggle for life" remains the natural law...
But that's what makes empathy even more moving! ;)

Insolitus said...

Every species does horrible stuff, it's just according to their capabilities. Chimps can think and reason to an extent, and they attack and murder members of their own species.