No Need to Hate

Imagine, can you imagine about this?

Yes you can, but you don't always think about them [sharks].

When you do, you think as them as mean blood-thirsty animals, don't you? You feel afraid and that's part of how you hate them.

Before the movie Jaws no one really was scared of them, but Jaws was a movie of a shark eating people and that’s why everyone made a jump to a conclusion.

 

The person [Peter Benchley] who made the book Jaws had regretted to make such a scary book about an animal cause then everyone was afraid of sharks [read the National Geographic article on White Sharks: “I became convinced, too, that considering the knowledge accumulated about great whites in the last 25 years, I couldn't possibly write Jaws today… not in good conscience anyway”, page 12 of the article by Peter Benchley ].

My teacher Ms. Geal said hate can be a strong word, too much. And I said to everyone I try to convince that sharks are good, we can be afraid but there is no need to hate.

Shark photo gallery in the National Geographic

A great white shark devours bait set outside a cage that protects a human diver. The great white is the fiercest of the sharks, eating tuna, sea lions, dolphins, other sharks, and carrion—but not humans. Great white sharks occasionally attack humans due to mistaken identity or invasion of the shark's territory by people.

Great white sharks can be up to 21 feet (6.4 meters) long and weigh up to 7,000 pounds (3,175 kilograms). They can swim at 15 miles per hour (24 kilometers per hour) to attack their prey