This film really shocked me- not only was I completely clueless about how endangered sharks currently are, all over the world, but I was also unaware of how important they are to life on earth.
I had never been specially fond of sharks, but I couldn't help feeling outraged and saddened by how savagely human beings are acting in the ocean, not respecting life under or above the water. We're acting irresponsibly and unconsciously (and I say "we are" because if "we are" witnessing it but not preventing it "we are" allowing it and therefore "we are" also responsible).
How wrong shark fishing/finning is (specially in the amount and ways it has come to be done commonly) isn't just about the terrible effects it will cause (and is already causing) on human life and all other forms of life on earth, but mainly about the complete lack of principles, respect and conscience it shows. What have we become? We respond only to money. Wherever there is money, we shall go. Whatever brings money to our hands, we will do. No matter how and where, no matter who and when...money calls the shots around here.
We're supposed to continue to evolve as humans, not turn into monsters (I think?). We must choose another path. Happiness isn't in having. We have forgotten all the basics, we are blinded by the desire to own, and we forget one simple but fundamental truth: one cannot own, one cannot be, one cannot anything, if one doesn't exist. We will cease to exist if we don't start acting responsibly towards ourselves and others...people, animals, the environment.
Let's wake up from this terrible nightmare we have created for ourselves and start changing things around here, shall we?
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