Cruelty
"R. Gordon Cummings, a ninetheenth-century hunter in South Africa, described killing the biggest male elephant he had ever seen. He first shot it in the shoulder, so that it could not run away. The elephant limped over to a tree and leaned against it. Deciding to contemplate the elephant before killing it, Cummings paused to make coffee and then chose to determine experimentally which were an elephant's vulnerable spots. He walked up to it and fired bullets into various parts of the head. The elephant did not move except to touch the bullet wounds with the tip of this trunk. 'Surprised and shocked to find that I was only tormenting and prolonging the sufferings of the noble beats, which bore his trials with such dignified composure,' Cummings wrote, he decided to finish him off and shot him nine times behind the shoulder. 'Large tears now trickled from his eyes, which he slowly shut and opened; his colossal frame quivered conculsively, and, falling on his side, he expired." (When Elephants Weep by Jeffrey Masson & Susan McCarthy)
There is only one question that I have, why such cruelty?
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真係好殘忍呀！
I can't shake it off my head for days. I can almost see in my mind's eyes, the elephant suffering the pain from the bullets and asking why. Although the traditional scientific view denies that animals have emotions and that they feel pain, I am quite sure that Cummings did not agree because it's no "fun" to torture something that cannot feel. He knew the elephant felt pain, and he still did what he did. That's what make it difficult to swallow.
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