Frasi di Matthew Scully
Matthew Scully
Data di nascita:30. Marzo 1959
Matthew Scully è un giornalista e scrittore statunitense, autore di alcuni discorsi del presidente George W. Bush e di altri esponenti di spicco del Partito Repubblicano, fra cui Sarah Palin.
Nel 2003 ha pubblicato il libro Dominion, un reportage sugli allevamenti industriali, che lo ha reso noto come sostenitore dei diritti degli animali. Egli si rifà alle posizioni teoriche della destra cristiana, ritenendo che il "dominio" sugli animali sia stato conferito all'uomo da Dio, ma che l'uomo dovrebbe esercitarlo compassionevolmente, a differenza di come accade negli allevamenti intensivi. Scully è vegetariano.
Frasi Matthew Scully
„Animals are more than ever a test of our character, of mankind's capacity for empathy and for decent, honorable conduct and faithful stewardship. We are called to treat them with kindness, not because they have rights or power or some claim to equality, but in a sense because they don't; because they all stand unequal and powerless before us.“
— Matthew Scully
Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy
„When you start with a necessary evil, and then over time the necessity passes away, what's left?“
— Matthew Scully
Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy
„Sometimes tradition and habit are just that, comfortable excuses to leave things be, even when they are unjust and unworthy. Sometimes--not often, but sometimes--the cranks and radicals turn out to be right. Sometimes Everyone is wrong.“
— Matthew Scully
Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy
„Wildlife, we are constantly told, would run loose across our towns and cities were it not for the sport hunters to control their population, as birds would blanket the skies without the culling services of Ducks Unlimited and other groups. Yet here they are breeding wild animals, year after year replenishing the stock, all for the sole purpose of selling and killing them, deer and bears and elephants so many products being readied for the market. Animals such as deer, we are told, have no predators in many areas, and therefore need systematic culling. Yet when attempts are made to reintroduce natural predators such as wolves and coyotes into these very areas, sport hunters themselves are the first to resist it. Weaker animals in the wild, we hear, will only die miserable deaths by starvation and exposure without sport hunters to control their population. Yet it's the bigger, stronger animals they're killing and wounding--the very opposite of natural selection--often with bows and pistols that only compound and prolong the victim's suffering.“
— Matthew Scully
Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy
„It is true, as we are often reminded, that kindness to animals is among the humbler duties of human charity--though for just that reason among the more easily neglected. And it is true that there will always be enough injustice and human suffering in the world to make the wrongs done to animals seem small and secondary. The answer is that justice is not a finite commodity, nor are kindness and love. Where we find wrongs done to animals, it is no excuse to say that more important wrongs are done to human beings, and let us concentrate on those. A wrong is a wrong, and often the little ones, when they are shrugged off as nothing, spread and do the gravest harm to ourselves and others.“
— Matthew Scully
Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy
„Factory farming isn't just killing: It is negation, a complete denial of the animal as a living being with his or her own needs and nature. It is not the worst evil we can do, but it is the worst evil we can do to them.“
— Matthew Scully
Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy
„If we are defined by reason and morality, then reason and morality must define our choices, even when animals are concerned. When people say, for example, that they like their veal or hot dogs too much to ever give them up, and yeah it's sad about the farms but that's just the way it is, reason hears in that the voice of gluttony. We can say that what makes a human being human is precisely the ability to understand that the suffering of an animal is more important than the taste of a treat.“
— Matthew Scully
Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy
„The only thing worse than cruelty is delegated cruelty.“
— Matthew Scully
Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy
„When we shrink from the sight of something, when we shroud it in euphemism, that is usually a sign of inner conflict, of unsettled hearts, a sign that something has gone wrong in our moral reasoning.“
— Matthew Scully
Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy
„Tradition with all its happy assumptions and necessary evils, all of its content majorities and stout killers, is not always a reliable guide.“
— Matthew Scully
Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy
„My earliest recollection is of coming upon some rabbit tracks in the backyard snow. I must have been three or so, but I had never seen a rabbit and can still recall the feeling of being completely captivated by the tracks: Someone had been here. And he left these prints. And he was alive. And he lived somewhere nearby, maybe even watching me at this very moment.
Four decades later, I do not need to be reminded that rabbits are often a nuisance to farmers and gardeners. My point is that when you look at a rabbit and can see only a pest, or vermin, or a meal, or a commodity, or a laboratory subject, you aren't seeing the rabbit anymore. You are seeing only yourself and the schemes and appetites we bring to the world--seeing, come to think of it, like an animal instead of as a moral being with moral vision.“
— Matthew Scully
Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy
