No....no....not like that.....
You dont understand me......
See.....why are some people responding with bigotry and
ridicule...?
The reason why this particular law should be repealed......or at
least the thinking behind it......is the same with the thinking
about repealing the law banning same-gender relation.
It is for equality and progression.
It is for mental sovereignty.
If this law exists, that means there wont be true equality and
there wont be real animal welfare.
Animal welfare must first of all, first and foremost, comes from
mental equality.
If human and animal relation is deemed as "wrong" , then it is a
form of discrimination and second-classing of a whole bunch of
species and people.
I always see that we as humans are blessed with reason,
compassion, ability to think, ability to contantly build on our
civilization, and yet we are still enslaving many other species who
are sharing this earth with us and we think they are second class
than us.
Lately, we have come forward and made many progress, but, there
are also many other areas where we as people are quite barbaric,
such as, subjugating animals for food, enslavement for work labour
(doesnt exist much in Singapore admitedly), and lastly I think for
real true progression and improving the last civil rights
frontiers, we as humans must understand that animals are sentient
beings, capable of thinking, emotion, perception, pain, pleasure,
and personality.
If we recognize them as beings,
It is immoral to place a mental segregation like that.
I hope you understand now where I come from and what I mean by
this.
If I can explain a bit and use the logic behind the gay-rights
movement.......Think about it, nobody say now that some NMP who
argue for repeal of law forbidding same-gender relation is a
homosexual person himself / herself, and nobody now say homosexuals
should "go see a shrink" , but why is there so much prejudice,
malice, bigotry, and revulsion towards human beings who happen to
have a loving relations with another living creature who happen to
be of a different species...?
I think this law should be removed to achieve mental
emancipation.
Why do we see sometimes on STOMP, people who chain their dogs to
their front door for hours...?
Why do we see on STOMP, people who torture cats ?
The reason if we think deeper about it, is because in our minds
and in our mentality, we still have not reached real true
understanding and appreciation of animals as our fellow sentient
beings.
I think some people just see them as "talking objects" ,
almost.
So it is like "talking chair" , or "talking table" , I mean they
place them as some kind of worthless or second-class conception.
Their lives and welfare is not important as humans'
This law forbidding human-animal relation is a form of
discrimination and stigma and it further strengthens the distance
and the dichotomy between humans and animals. It promotes mental
segregation which results in mental excesses such as seeing them as
second-class non-feeling objects for subjugation and
mistreatment.
Remember, "the Bear" is also an animal ...
