Crueldade consentida – Crítica à razão antropocêntrica

Despite the fact that the Brazilian Constitution is against animal violence, protecting the fauna integrity, actually it does not work. However, our law system allows cruel acts and accepts the violence done by those who consider themselves rational and superior. Just watch the evil reality at the streets, public shows (circus) and farms, where the animals suffer and are exploited to their limits. Also watch the pain of the animals that are part of an industrial production, the horror at the slaughter houses and the scientific experiments laboratories. It means that we have a contradiction. Blind and cold, we live in a world that lacks justice. The cycle of the human life is limited to personal ambitions, selfish actions and superfluous pleasures. There’s no space to compassion. Under this anthropocentric view, the nature of the animals is no more important and becomes economic or environmental resources. Our system, by rejecting the essence of each living being, defends the fauna only for the purpose the human interests. The animals are treated like merchandise, resources or consumption goods and the law denies them the right to be sensitive. It must be changed, there can be no more silent before so much oppression. For many centuries the human being has been dominating, torturing, killing and exterminating other species, because of economic, commercial, cultural and gastronomic interests or just sadism. The history shows that our relationship with the animals is marked by fanatism, supersticions, ignorance and indifference. It’s a Ministério Público function, as a social transforming agent, to fight against this situation. We must admit the animals presence in the sphere of the human moralities, allowing them to have rights. The question is not only of the law, but philosophic. It’s primordial that we review our teaching methods, searching for a formula to respect the essence of animal life no matter what it is. Without a doubt, this way is far from the anthropocentrism.