'It was a male. Whenever... «Disgrace»
Nazira_K1 мая 2019'It was a male. Whenever there was a bitch in the vicinity it would get excited and unmanageable, and with Pavlovian regularity the owners would beat it. This went on until the poor dog didn't know what to do. At the smell of a bitch it would chase around the garden with its ears flat and its tail between its legs, whining, trying to hide.' 'I don't see the point,' says Lucy. And indeed, what is the point? 'There was something so ignoble in the spectacle that I despaired. One can punish a dog, it seems to me, for an offence like chewing a slipper. A dog will accept the justice of that: a beating for a chewing. But desire is another story. No animal will accept the justice of being punished for following its instincts.' 'So males must be allowed to follow their instincts unchecked? Is that the moral?' 'No that's not the moral. What was ignoble about the Kenilworth spectacle was that the poor dog had begun to hate his own nature. It no longer needed to be beaten. It was ready to punish itself. At that point it would have been better to shoot it.
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