The Thought of Massacre Prevailing
“The thought of massacre” is prevailing all over the world, which fact, I regret to say, hardly anyone recognizes. If “the thought of massacre” was applied to mankind, everyone of us would feel it to be horrible and dreadful and would firmly oppose it. However, when the dreadful thought is applied to insects or plants, we cannot recognize it but accept it as a matter of course.
You find a lot of weeds in your garden, and you use herbicides in order to get rid of them. You find a swarm of ants in your kitchen, and you use ant insecticides to kill them. Herbicides and insecticides are, so to speak, “weapons of mass destruction” for weeds and ants.
You have caught tuberculosis, and you continue to take antibiotics to eliminate tuberculosis bacteria in the body. You have caught dysentery, and then, you take antibiotics to exterminate dysentery bacteria. It is quite natural that we take antibiotics for treatment because we will be killed without using them. But antibiotics are “weapons of mass destruction” for tuberculosis bacteria and dysentery bacteria, only a few of which manage to survive these weapons of mass destruction and obtain extremely strong resistance to antibiotics.
You have a slight cold, and you take a lot of antibiotics. As is well known, no medicine is effective against a cold itself. You have slight diarrhea, and you continue to use a lot of antibiotics. You use antibiotics far more than necessary. But you cannot eradicate all the germs. Only a few of them manage to survive antibiotics attacks and obtain too strong antibiotic-resistance.
In this way multi-drug resistant bacteria (super bacteria) have come to be created by us human beings because of our abusing a huge number of antibiotics and antibacterial detergents. So have several other multi-resistant bacteria . Those dangerous bacteria were not naturally born but we have created them.
Almost all antibiotics are now ineffective against those super bacteria (super germs). In the near future when they obtain perfect resistance to all the drugs we make, we, mankind, might finally be exterminated by those super germs created from “the thought of massacre.”
Living things try to survive all kinds of attacks threatening to destroy them, and leave offspring with much stronger resistance. It has become evident that different kinds of bacteria, when mixed up, can obtain other kinds of resistance by exchanging their resistance abilities. They are by no means foolish. Super tuberculosis bacteria are the heroes of those bacteria which have come into being for survival.
Defoliants used by the United States of America in the Vietnam War, herbicides, agrochemicals and insecticides probably come from “the thought of massacre,” which means “eradicating anything that hinders you.”
Everyone hates “harmful insects,” but they are named in that way from the standpoint of human beings. From the standpoint of “harmful” insects, human beings are the most “harmful” animals, or the most dangerous slaughterers.
I am also a member of human beings, and I accept others getting rid of harmful insects and weeds. However, when you, consciously or not, introduce “the thought of massacre” in order to get rid of them, I am afraid that it may lead to the extinction of mankind.
Using herbicides and insecticides all over our surroundings creates endocrine disruptors (endocrine disrupting chemicals), which they say do damage to the human generative function and threaten the survival of mankind.
I fear that to cope with living things harmful for mankind with “the thought of massacre” might be to lead mankind to extinction, namely, to “massacre” mankind.
Nuclear weapons and biochemical weapons are called weapons of mass destruction. They are, beyond controversy, weapons coming from “the thought of massacre.” They slaughter not only warriors, but also ordinary citizens, women, children, and even living things other than humans. They are, however, not the only weapons of mass destruction. Some drugs and some agrochemicals come from “the thought of massacre,” and one misstep could allow them to destroy mankind.
I believe that to renounce “the thought of massacre” will make human beings one level wiser and stop the destruction of them.
(written on April 26, 2017)
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Other Essays written in English by Tsugio Nagai:
*Ridiculous and Unfair Rule for Shorter and Smaller Ski Jumpers
*Change “Don’ts” into “Dos.” ---How to solve environmental problems
*How to Teach Other Countries’ Atrocities to the Next Generation
*“Do not stand at my grave and weep” altered by Tsugio Nagai