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" The thing is, people don't really care about animals. Especially not the kind, calm and docile ones."

That's the beauty of our modern society. Most of us never see the dirty stuff that's going on. We only get a very sterilized image of the world. Just go into a chicken or pig farm and see how horrific the conditions really are. But we get protected from having to see this and get our meat with nice clean pictures on it.

Some years ago I saw a video some journalists that got in a "surgical" airstrike. Same thing. We only see clean images from above but their footage showed had terrible such a strike is. Cut off limbs everywhere, people screaming, badly burned children. This took my excitement for modern weaponry down a lot.

We are now as cruel or probably more cruel than people in that past. We just don't have to see it anymore because only a few people will do the dirty work.




The "modern" in modern weaponry is the precision.

Bombs were bombs a hundred years ago and they will still be bombs in 2118.




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