Tu quoque, fili me?
Tu quoque, fili me?
“Atque ita tribus et viginti plagis confossus est uno modo ad primum ictum gemitu sine voce edito, etsi tradiderunt quidam Marco Bruto irruenti dixisse: καὶ σὺ τέκνον.”*
C. Suetonii Tranquilli - De Vita XII Caesarum
The exploitation of other species is an act of Nature.
The ultimate step of betrayal it is not consumed within the same family, but on different species. The cost of human progress and societal development includes the suffering of groups that are not human, but who are naturally aware of the high price to pay to avoid extinction. Is it worth to make a spectacle out of it?
*And in this wise he was stabbed with three and twenty wounds, uttering not a word, but merely a groan at the first stroke, though some have written that when Marcus Brutus rushed at him, he said in Greek, "You too, my child?"