Modern Society

Today I read about how recently there were tiger cubs put on display at a mall for the holiday season. This made me extremely mad because it is cruel and wrong to do this. Not only did the tiger cubs look sad, but they were also sick and that something that cant be missed. This got me thinking about how our society has made things better for people, but continues to get worse for animals. We ended slavery in 1865 and have done many other things to make life better for people, but I don't think we are doing much for animals. Reading articles like this about the tiger cubs makes me wonder how long it is going to take to change people's views on how they think they are better than everyone else and can treat anyone or anything how they want because there aren't any laws preventing them from doing that. It took a long time to end slavery, which something we are learning about now in class, and to stop racist views of other people, which still happens today, but isn't as bad as what it was, but I think more could be done for animals since animals are becoming an important aspect of people's lives. In a way, this reminded me of slavery because the tiger cubs were forced to live in that situation instead of living in the wild where they belong and because they don't have any rights like slaves didn't and most people dont think they need rights because they cant think for themselves or protect themselves like people can. People thought of black people like that too, but that thought process ended, so I dont understand why we cant do the same for animals.