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Avatar, an important Movie for Animal Rights
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Avatar, an important Movie for Animal Rights
By: Mark Schmid
Version: 2009.12.27

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In "Avatar" people from earth go to the planet "Pandora" which is covered by beautiful natural forests in order to harvest a mineral called "Unobtainium", which is very valuable for humans. Thereby the humans don't stop even at destroying or trying to destroy the most valued things, the home tree and the sacred grounds of the native species, the so-called "Na'vi". This not out of pure malice, at least not initially, until the "Na'vi" started to act up, but because it makes it easier for humans to get what they wanted, "Unobtainium". The message which the lead character in "Avatar" has for the non-human species is: "We humans can take anything we want. And no one can stop us."


A piece of "Unobtainium"
This is what humans want in "Avatar", "Unobtainium".
It's not too hard to see the parallelism between what happens to the non-human species of the "Na'vi" on "Pandora" in "Avatar" and what happens to non-human species on earth, for instance horses, in reality.
By exchanging the non-human extraterrestrial species, the "Na'vi" on "Pandora" in "Avatar", with non-human terrestrial species on earth and in reality, we must acknowledge that Avatar's driving moral theme applies to mankind's treatment of non-human species, to animals on earth and in reality as well. This is what makes James Cameron's film a blockbuster Hollywood pledge, perhaps involuntarily so, not only for environmentalism, humanism and against war, oppression and exploitation, but also for animal rights and against speciesism. A strike of God I am almost tempted to say.
A truly good thing has the characteristic of being helpful and good in ways which even it's creator has not foreseen. I believe this applies to the movie "Avatar".
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