"Dr., I do not agree with Miss Mora's observation" Cher Raised her voice.
Dr. Salwick looked towards Cher. "What do you mean by that, Miss Cher?"
"Dr., just because we eat them and at the same time felt hurt watching them die does not signify that we are just trying to run away from our guilt. I felt Miss Mora needs to change her observation on that one."
"Can you elaborate it for the class, Miss Cher?"
"First, I want to be clear on one thing, that is when we feel hurt. It is because we do feel empathy. We are not trying to run away from our guilt."
"But how do you explain, that we also eat them without any sense of guilt," Mora interrupted Cher in between.
Cher looked towards Mora. "Let me complete myself, Miss Mora. You will get your answer," Cher turned back to Dr. Salwick and continued. "So, where I was. Yeah, we do feel empathy. We are not running from our guilt. So, why are we okay with eating them as our food? You need to understand that humans are eating animals since the day evolution started. You need to understand that, this is our second nature which we cannot change ourselves unless we were taught about this from the beginning. For example, some people are vegetarian. Why do you think some people abstain from eating animals?"
"Miss Cher, are you saying that people after all these still relying on basic survival instinct, and that is why we are eating meat." Mora looked towards Cher and retorted.
"I am not saying we are still relying on our survival instinct to eat meat. It is more like eating meat is become a part of our habitat. When we were kids, we saw our family eating meat. We also start eating it without any thought. Even if we belong to a vegetarian family, we see our friends and colleagues eating meat. We get curious and ended up trying it once. Which leads us to continue to eat or unless we can stop ourselves later on or in the first place." Cher ended her speech looked towards Mora.
Stolen novel; please report.
"But that does not mean we..." Mora was unable to retort back anything and remain standing there.
"It is okay, Miss Mora. You can sit down. Miss Cher, you did a great job explaining your observation and thoughts." Said Dr. Salwick looking towards them. "Anyone else wants to add anything" Dr. Salwick looked towards the rest of the class and expected some answers, but he got nothing in return.
"Alas! Looks like I need to explain, but I have when I have to explain everything. It is always better if I give them clues, they utilize those to find a close enough solution. So, they develop the idea of thinking things. In the end, I give them the solution. So, that they can compare how close they reached by themselves but whatever I will help them this time." thought Dr. Salwick.
While Dr. Salwick was in his thoughts, someone raised their hand.
Yes, you want to add something, asked Dr. Salwick looking towards the guy who raised his hand.
Guy nodded his head. "Before today, I never thought about this or more like I never cared about this topic. But, after listening to Miss Cher and Miss Mora. I did come to some conclusion."
“What conclusion you reached?” asked Dr. Salwick.
“I came to two conclusions and they both are pretty much the same,” Guy said “First either we are running away from our guilt, or Second, we never cared about these things in the first place.”
“What do you mean by specifically by things?" Dr. Salwick interrupted.
“I mean the idea that everyone just continues to consume meat without acknowledging the fact, that we are eating killing animals or eating dead animals.” He continued. “As I said, I came to these two conclusions, and if these are our only two options, then what is ultimately the difference between the two. If it is the first situation then it is clear that we humans only want to see things how we like, not caring about anything else. If it is the second situation then it means we never cared about anything outside ourselves in the first place. Is not both the situation the same in this regard. We either never cared about it, or we know it but never cared to change it" after speaking, He sat down on his seat.
Everyone was looking towards him like he told them that the world is coming to end, even Dr. Salwick was shocked. While Mora was looking happily towards Aren, Cher was contemplating with a frown face.