Moral Implications In Lori Gruen's Captive Kin

Lori Gruen 's "Captive Kin" takes a look at what it must be like to be held captive. She asks the reader to examine whether imprisoning apes or humans does harm to them even though they may deserve captivity as a punishment. She goes on to explore whether animals engage in autonomous behaviors, not by verbalization, but by non-language behaviors. Lastly the author brings to light the need to hold some animals’ captive due to the moral implications of releasing them back to the wild.
In “Captive Kin” Gruen give us a glimpse of the fear that can arise just watching a move. It is thru the imagination that the author first asks the reader to imagine what it must be like to not only be imprisoned but to be treated less than human She said “I think what scared me the most about that original movie was thinking about being locked in a cage, unable to communicate with the captors. When I imagine myself in the position of Taylor, who had been shot in the throat before he was captured and now could not communicate his desires, I feel frustrated, angry, and also really scared” (167) The loss of control over one’s life can be terrifying, whether it is for a crime or just in our imagination.
Even though it is accepted in human society to be held …show more content…
I would have to add to this the issue, of domesticating other animals just because we humans find them cute. Morally I believe that humans do have a responsibility to consider further if these types of conditions for animals is proper. I don’t feel that humans have a right to take any animal away from its habitat for personal entertainment. On YouTube you can find a number of videos that show the little spider monkeys and although I do have to say they are very cute, they do not belong in cages in a home with little diapers so they don’t soil the house. For me this is no different than the caged