“Men care for what they, themselves, expect to suffer or gain; and so long as they do not expect it to redound upon themselves, their cruelty and carelessness is without limit.”-Quirinus Quirrell
This seems likely, but what is your evidence for it?
For one, the documentary Dominion seems to bear this out pretty well. This is certainly an “ideal” situation where cruelty and carelessness will never rebound upon the people carrying it out.
That’s a documentary about factory farming, yes? What people do to lower animals doesn’t necessarily reflect what they’ll do to their own species. Most people here want to exterminate mosquitoes to fight diseases like malaria. Most people here do not want to exterminate human beings.
To be fair, my position is less described by that Quirrell quote and more by Harry’s quote when he’s talking to Hermione about moral peer pressure:
“The way people are built, Hermione, the way people are built to feel inside, is that they hurt when they see their friends hurting. Someone inside their circle of concern, a member of their own tribe. That feeling has an off-switch, an off-switch labelled ‘enemy’ or ‘foreigner’ or sometimes just ‘stranger’. That’s how people are, if they don’t learn otherwise.”
Unlike Quirrell I give people the credit for actually caring, rather than pretending to care, about people. I just don’t think that extends to very many people, for most people.
“Men care for what they, themselves, expect to suffer or gain; and so long as they do not expect it to redound upon themselves, their cruelty and carelessness is without limit.”-Quirinus Quirrell
This seems likely, but what is your evidence for it?
For one, the documentary Dominion seems to bear this out pretty well. This is certainly an “ideal” situation where cruelty and carelessness will never rebound upon the people carrying it out.
That’s a documentary about factory farming, yes? What people do to lower animals doesn’t necessarily reflect what they’ll do to their own species. Most people here want to exterminate mosquitoes to fight diseases like malaria. Most people here do not want to exterminate human beings.
To be fair, my position is less described by that Quirrell quote and more by Harry’s quote when he’s talking to Hermione about moral peer pressure:
“The way people are built, Hermione, the way people are built to feel inside, is that they hurt when they see their friends hurting. Someone inside their circle of concern, a member of their own tribe. That feeling has an off-switch, an off-switch labelled ‘enemy’ or ‘foreigner’ or sometimes just ‘stranger’. That’s how people are, if they don’t learn otherwise.”
Unlike Quirrell I give people the credit for actually caring, rather than pretending to care, about people. I just don’t think that extends to very many people, for most people.