I'm someone who opposes zoos..
I'm someone who believes that
dolphins should be returned to the sea..
But I have an aquarium at home..
I've liked fish since I was young..
So when I was young, my home had
quite a large aquarium..
My father was someone who liked animals..
We raised fish at home
and had a parakeet in the living room..
We also had a dog..
and raised a rabbit..
Someone who opposes zoos..
Someone who believes that dolphins
who perform for people's interest
should be returned to the sea..
Paradoxically keeps an aquarium at home..
and has had it for quite a long time..
What am I..
I thought for a long time..
My arguments and actions are contradictory..
I need to get rid of the aquarium
to act consistent with my beliefs..
If I get rid of the aquarium now..?
What happens to the fish living in it..?
Should I give them to someone else..?
Should I release them into the wild..?
Giving them to someone else
would just be me protecting my own beliefs..
The situation the fish are in doesn't change..
If I release them,
the fish who have been living in the tank
eating food given by people
would hardly be able to live properly..
Just as the fish currently living finish their lives,
thinking that I should put away the aquarium..
at the same time..
My thoughts extend to
those who make their living from aquariums..
Should I eliminate all aquariums in the world..?
No, I shouldn't..
They make their living from it..
That's right..
Just as fish are part of nature..
those who put fish in aquariums and sell them
are also just part of nature..
I think and act this way
based on my thoughts and beliefs..
but no one has given me
the right to condemn them..
I have no right to condemn nature..
They make their living that way..
and the fish sold to them also
live that way and end their lives..
Everything is nature..
Forests.. rivers.. seas are not the only nature..
Zoos too..
dolphins in aquariums too..
fish in my home too..
me raising the fish too..
those who bought dolphins too..
zoo owners too..
Everything is part of nature..
There's no need to get angry..
just accept things as they flow..
Nature takes care of everything itself..
through what we call purification..
