Phyllis Rose, Tools of Torture

Gaston Havandjian Professor Hubbell English Comp I prove Four 11/13/12 Hu homosexual Nature an new(prenominal)(prenominal) Tool For Torture? Driving your car to a dinner with friends you go by hundreds of advertisement slogans at the side of the road. Reading them seems to be a wakeless way to entertain your mind with all those miles ahead and since you didnt go under what argon you going to order yet you think that whitethornbe approximately of them provide give you an idea. One of them captures your attention in a redundant way, it shows the image of a laughing sheep and below it says Meat is real victuals. EurekaNow you have a guess of what your order will be, and as long as you sustenance thinking in this phrase you wonder what they meant with the word real. If they argon stating such a thing it means that they also deal that thither is other food for thought that is not real or not as real as meat. A second thought crosses your mind when you remember a mainstay y ou read in the newspaper a few days past which was titled as followed Studies have found that the consumption of meat and fleshly products increase the development of chronic diseases including high blood pressure, diabetes, coronary purport disease, obesity, kidney failure, osteoporosis and cancer.What if the advertisement was aimed to convince us that meat is good for you when its very not? What if after those studies were revealed the ingesters of the meat persistence felt their businesses threatened and ignoring the facts are still poisoning our bodies and cleansing thousands of animals a day just for a profit? Vegetables, fruits and grains are not real enough and healthier possibly? When you arrive to the restaurant you bring up the theme and unity of your friends provides a fact which supports the studies credibility, and from your point of view, it gives the whole discussion a clear ending.He tells you something you didnt know, that health insurance companies offer discount rates to vegetarians and vegans. Every companys design is to brand name notes. Insurance companies determine a mortals risk of conclusion by analyzing his habits and ground on these results they charge a fee. In todays military man, whither money is to a greater extent puissant than any righteousness, government or social institution, there is no better evidence than this to prove that the ingestion of meat is genuinely not good for kinds. For hundreds of years we have been carryd of the opposite and still are.What well-nigh the people working in the slaughter houses, what would they do if they knew that the blood they liberation all(prenominal) day is contributing to reduce our life expectation? Animals are not just be killed for food they are also being used for the manufacture of products such as milk, cheese, eggs and many an(prenominal) other more. Clothing, sport hunting and fishing, entertainment (Circuses, zoos and aquariums) and product experimenta tion are other examples of how animals are exploited for the benefit of man.The conditions were these creatures full of life are detrimental. Cages and chains, metal and fire, contrived breeding and separation from their cubs, a life of captivity and a tedious and painful death are just a few examples of how they active a life of torture and agony until the day they be cum a steak on your table or a coat to provide warmth. So, what moves a person to desire working in a place where killing becomes a routine and suffering and fear is perceived by every atomic number 53 sense?Of course that making a living and the miss of jobs would be one of the reasonable firmnesss, but there should be something else that pushes soul to do such terrible things to these innocent living beings unable to still defend or speak for themselves. Is it something ingrained in our gentlemans gentleman genius or perhaps external agents, such as institutions and industries, convince them that they are working for a great goal? In order to answer these questions we are going to use some ideas taken from a textbook written by Phyllis Rose titled Tools of Torture.Rose published many books and contributes frequently to periodicals such as the Atlantic Monthly and the New York propagation Book Review. Rose situates us in an art gallery in Paris where an exhibition of medieval torture instruments takes place. The high number of unlike tools that she sees, and the many uses someone can give them, flummoxs her think that pain must(prenominal) be as great a challenge to the human resource as pleasure (Rose 175). This idea is reinforced after she shares her experience of a facial treatment in a dark booth of a beauty salon where she was exposed to ointments and electrodes.By associating the electrodes with what happened in Algeria and the ointments with masks dipped in acid, she concludes that the esthetician and the torturer share the same area of expertise pain, and that Should that loving attention to the clay turn malevolent, you have torture. (Rose 177) The author believes that The secret of torture, like the secret of french cuisine, is that nothing is unthinkable (Rose 176) and to illustrate this she uses an analogy where a man is hurt with a wheel and a snail is baked in its own shell.There are no limits in the world of torture and this fact may be a reason to believe that humans use their complex number to accomplish the most horrifying things, but torture didnt come into existence to give vent to human sadism. It is not always semiprivate and perverse but sometimes social and institutional, vetted by the government and, of course, the church building (Rose 177). Religions are probably the most influential institutions in our societies. They proclaim that the set and norms they promote are the only true and that not living tally to them will bring a life of sin and shame and an futurity of suffering and torture.Even if we dont believe in any re ligion we still live under their rules. Christianity for example, by introducing the Ten Commandments, offered the basis for establishing the good and legal laws the institution of marriage is also an exemplar of how we organize our societies based in biblical patterns. It is not the intention of this discussion to analyze if basing our lives jibe these doctrines is a force for good or not what seems relevant here is that sometimes the most heinous and aberrant things are justified by uttering these words for the benefit of a certain group of people.Usually the objective is to persuade a bigger group of people to work for their own causes persuade them that they are doing it for the common good, and the most effective tool to accomplish this seems to be manipulating peoples faith. If we take a look back or so five hundred years ago we can see how the biggest race murder in the history of humanity was perpetrated in the name of god. The continent where we live today witnessed ho w the same people who came to these lands to convert the natives into Christianity broke every single of the rules they believed in.The main goal of the promoters of this campaign was taking all the gold, silver and riches to Europe and stealing the land, but somehow they managed to make people believe that their true intention was to save the souls of the natives, considered as animals, by making them view the true and only religion because that was gods command. Under these commands it is dread(a) to see how people can, among other things, overcome their repugnance to the task of make physical pain to other (Rose 177).Christianity also makes us believe that man is the ruler of this world and that all the other living creatures are at our service. The meat industry, in their many ways to legitimate their business, tries to persuade us that animals dont feel pain and that ingesting their meat is good for us. In their efforts to keep selling their products they even have paid doc tors and nutritionists supporting their cause.With these powerful institutions favoring the supposed benefits of animal products there is no wonder why we keep using them in our diets with a blind conviction that they are good for us. This seems to be also the main reasons why the workers in the animal industry are able to do their jobs without remorse. Just as there arent squads of sadists beating down the doors to the torture chambers begging for jobs (Rose 177) there arent squads of animal murderers beating down the doors to the slaughter houses begging for jobs.In hundreds of years of interrogation theres still no evidence that a human nature exists, and let alone that it coerces us to perform the most horrific acts. The only thing we share as human beings are our human needs. No matter in which part of the world a person lives all he needs is food, water, air, a shelter and a social group where he feels valued and contented. It is in the interests of certain groups of the soc iety to make us believe just the opposite even if it causes death, suffering and pain.The more informed we are, the less vulnerable we are to their lies. The author believes that If taking ones goals too seriously is the danger, the best discouragement of torture may be a radical hedonism that denies that any goal is worth the mean, that refuses to allow the nobly abstract to seduce us from the sweetness of the concrete (Rose 178). Hedonism is a school of thought that argues that pleasure is the only intrinsic good but what people finds pleasurable could be rather more personal than social.This school of thought doesnt seem to be the answer for the eradication of torture, war or a diet that brings disease and death since it pursues an arbitrary goal. The common goal is not actually a bad path to walk through the problem appears when what it is believed to be as common is just the goal of a few. Make that goal the fulfilling of the needs of every person in this world and feed them also with the truth so they can make their own decisions and in a few years after that we could be face into a much more optimistic panorama.