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The Allegory of the Cave is an parable used by the Greek philosopher Plato to illustrate “our nature in its education and want of education”.
Imagine a cave inhabited by prisoners who have been chained and held immobile since childhood, compelled to gaze at a wall in front of them. Behind the prisoners is a fire, and between the fire and the prisoners is a walkway, along which people walk carrying things on their heads “including figures of men and animals made of wood, stone and other materials”. The prisoners watch the shadows cast by the men, not knowing they are shadows. There are also echoes off the wall from the noise produced from the walkway. The prisoners would take the shadows to be real things and the echoes to be real sounds, not just reflections of reality, since they are all they had ever seen or heard, and the whole of their society would depend on the shadows on the wall.
Then suppose that a prisoner is freed and permitted to stand up. If someone were to show him the things that had cast the shadows, he would not recognize them for what they were and could not name them; he would believe the shadows on the wall to be more real than what he sees.
Suppose further that the man was compelled to look at the fire: wouldn’t he be struck blind and try to turn his gaze back toward the shadows, as toward what he can see clearly and hold to be real? What if someone forcibly dragged such a man upward, out of the cave: wouldn’t the man be angry at the one doing this to him? And if dragged all the way out into the sunlight, wouldn’t he be distressed and unable to see even the things now said to be true?
After some time on the surface, however, the freed prisoner would adapt. He would see more and more things around him, until he could look upon the Sun. He would understand that the Sun is the source of the seasons and the years, and is the steward of all things in the visible place, and is in a certain way the cause of all those things he and his companions had been seeing.
Wouldn’t he remember his first home, what passed for wisdom there, and his fellow prisoners, and consider himself happy and them pitiable? And wouldn’t he disdain whatever honors, praises, and prizes were awarded there to the ones who guessed best which shadows followed which? Moreover, were he to return there, wouldn’t he be rather bad at their game, no longer being accustomed to the darkness? Wouldn’t it be said of him that he went up and came back with his eyes corrupted, and that it’s not even worth trying to go up?
And if they were somehow able to get their hands on the man who attempts to release and lead them up, wouldn’t they kill him?
“Beagles are the most popular breed for lab use because of their friendly, docile, trusting, forgiving, people-pleasing personalities. The research industry says they adapt well to living in a cage, and are inexpensive to feed. Research beagles are usually obtained directly from commercial breeders who specifically breed dogs to sell to scientific institutions.”
http://beaglefreedomproject.org/
Animal testing is a disgusting practice. Please avoid all products that tortures animals for scientific testing not just beagles but rabbits, chimps & mice (etc etc ) need your help to .. Look for “Against Animal testing” on your products
Will repost this again
So you are reminded that dogs and cats are not safe from the harm that is animal murder and torture. Next time you put on your lipstick or shampoo your hair, think of the products you are using people! This is totally sad and fucked up.
this has literally broken my fucking heart.
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