earthlings

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6361872964130308142

The beginning and ending are so beautiful and inspiring - with the intervening parts so heartrending and shaming - but each in its own way should confirm and renew our commitment to the animals. Human beings wallow in the quicksand of eternal narcissism. The only rights that matter are their own. The only lives that have worth are their own. The only suffering that merits consideration is their own. We can send rockets to the moon - but when it comes to moral evolution, we are still cave-dwelling Neanderthals torturing and murdering each other and animals under the banners of sexism, racism, religion, nationality, and speciesism. It is this ladder that is absolutly resistant to reform. Personally, I think this behavior of superiority has become permanently encoded into the human genome. We easily recognize the horendous acts of abuse displayed in this documentary. "Human beings have an infinite capacity for suffering, as long as it's someone else who's suffering." Here is my own translation: "As long as it's not MY fat ass, WHO CARES?"Even if you can't get through the middle portions at least watch the first segment.