It is a basic respect of life in general - which extends to
living people as well. Do you feel we should inculcate the value
system any living thing's right to live is its position in human
society? Therefore.. ok to kill off any animal that is a stray loh.
STRAY only ma.
It's like some people are not useful to society - so why not
just cull them?
So if we MUST cull - then the decision process must be made
clear that it HAS gone through comprehensive thought. and not a
simple "let's get rid of them". Notice that I am not saying that
culling should NEVER happen. But it should not be viewed as a
'convenient solution' to human being's problems.
and some of our problems INCLUDE educating irresponsible pet
owners.<< But so easy to point the finger to animal lovers
and say "EH yo animal lover - go teach them la u so much time!"
right and fold your arms and grumble "no use one, this bunch of
people" because only animals lovers are 'responsible' for this
problem, and the 'rest of society' isn't.
it's easy to point fingers at other sections of society for
doing nothing and shrinking responsibility, but if you think about
it, who are the people who foisted the stray cats onto other people
? ... we did not asked for the cats, why should we who don't want
them around be saddled with the responsibility of looking after
them ? ... put yourself in the man's shoes and imagine it's your
car who got scratched, or put yourself in mine when I had to suffer
for the longest time the stench of putrefying rice and rotting fish
along the pavements of my neighbourhood, to say nothing of the
pests that comes along with it, and have to pick up lumps of turd
from the lawn ....
and while it's easy to argue that all life is equally precious,
I still think it is wrong to place a human beings as equals
alongside animals ... if an apartment catches fire, no contests,
the humans would be rescued first, period. again, I have to ask the
question, if all life is equally precious, how many "animal lovers"
are full time, hard core vegetarians ? .... isn't that "selective
interpretation" in another form too ? ...
I do not enjoy the deaths of these animals anymore than you do
(but only just, since I'm a carnivore and I love my meat) ... if
the cat lovers here can get rid of those cats by putting them all
up in foster homes, fine ! ... at least there'll be someone to pick
up their turd .... but strays in the neighbourhood would always
been a no-no to me ...
