Dolphins are complex
creatures. They discipline their young and stand together against
a shark. They have been known to rescue swimmers, sense humans that
are injured, and speak a highly complicated language that we still
are trying to decipher. Many of us know little about a dolphin in
the wild, because we go to an amusement park and see a captive dolphin
that gets fed when it performs a trick. This conditioned dolphin has
little area to call home and while they may be safe from the slaughters
of the seas will unfortunately outlive many wild dolphins. This is because dolphins are being slaughtered everyday and this travisty must stop.
The
dolphins of the seas are in grave danger along with many of the fish
species. In Japan, a travesty of great magnitude is commencing the
decline of a wonderful and beautiful species. Thousands of dolphins
are being slaughtered on a regular basis in Nazi style and added to
food as fish. These dolphins are captured by these heartless fishermen
and laid out as they watch their fellow kind get slaughtered, wail
in pain, and wait to be next. Not unlike the regimes of history, the
almighty dollar has sold out the human race once more.
What does it say about the human species that fails to recognize the
sanctity of life? Dolphins have never started a war, cheated workers
out of their money, caused a disease, or even created nuclear plants
knowing that they would destroy life. Yet, they face a holocaust in
which their innocence is their demise. Those of us that allow such
behavior and turn a blind eye may one day face a holocaust much closer
to home. It is our responsibility as humans to take responsibility
when others fail to do just that. These men that are slaughtering
these dolphins perhaps deserve the same fate, but should come to understand
that what they do is in fact what they do to themselves. Nothing escapes
the ripple effect we humans do to our ecosystem, our environment,
and our own race. No man is an island. No dolphin deserves to be slaughtered.
