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 Posted: Mon 1:06, 19 Aug 2013 Post subject: The Crocodile Farmer's Lament |
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The Crocodile Farmer's Lament,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]
"Many of the older crocodiles who once served the Khmer Rouge as man-eaters still remain at the farm. The deteriorated and battle-scarred skin of Lim Chhay's older crocodiles makes their hides worthless. But Lim Chhay also refuses to sell them for their meat. 'I don't want to kill them,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych],' he said. 'Their life is as valuable as mine.'"
How compassionate! How Buddhist! But . why are the lives of the old crocs -- which Chhay estimates are fifty to eighty years old -- worth as much as his own,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], while baby crocs are happily sold by the thousands for their skins?
The human mind is capable of greatness,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], but it's also capable of twisting into self-contradictory but self-serving pretzels. As for the Khmer Rouge feeding people to man-eating animals -- how unimaginably vile. This happened not in medieval times but when I was in high school. Among those whom the Khmer Rouge most enthusiastically killed were wearers of prescription eyeglasses,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], like me. Had I been born in Cambodia, not here -- same moment,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], different country -- I might have met that fate.
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