Enmos:
You are the hypocrite for placing yourself above all other life just because you can.
And you are its counterpart by placing a non-human's above yours.
Do I agree that the thought of smashing a squealing brat through glass is orgasmic? Absolutely- there's no shame in misanthropy and I hate you all.
But to believe that a mother grizzly, her fangs dripping with blood, the heat of fresh kill evaporating in the bitter frost of a barren Tundra that every morning hisses an icy menace of Death- that this animal
gives a fuck about what I think of her, that by 'respecting' this animal and prostituting my human ideals on her territory is doing anything other than getting in the way is me being that hypocrite.
And this sounds like you.
....You've just given me a great idea for a thread.
What's a puppy ? A living being for which I have a whole lot more respect than I have for most humans.
Your respect means nothing; a mere luxury item among sapiens.
Here's a passage from Allen Andrew's "Castle Crispin", the conversation here is between Lulu the hare and Rupert the beagle:
LULU: What is a knight?
RUPERT:Among the mandrakes, a lord will call a man a knight, install him and tell him it's a great honour. It really means that hte knight must spend heavily on horses and weaponry and turn up with a few followers to fight for the lord on demand.
LULU:What do they fight for? Food?
RUPERT: No, Honour. The lord's honour. Sometimes he gives a knight a bit, too.
LULU: What is honour? Very good food?
Its the most hilarious mockery of human arrogance, in my opinion. In other words, Enmos, that you feel a puppy is worth your respect is a narcissism of the worst order.
Its not only silly, but it has that Homeric tragedy of uselessness, that of Timothy Treadwell ~spiritually connecting~ with a mound of grizzly manure.
He got mauled, you know.
You're not as bad as I thought
And if you knew I've had to crush live rats to feed White Naped Storks, Kori bustards and Frogmouths?
Whitewolf:
Well I don't have a choice of where my tax money goes. I know I pay less than I should, but I don't know whether those dollars go to the local park or the park in Iraq. Do you have a choice? Let me know how it's done.
Unfortunately, no.
Wish we did though.
The military personnel are judged by military personnel because civilians do not see war, don't know what really happens there, and don't know how to conduct it.
Understood, but your statement concerned being powerless.
We're not- we're just lazy, intellectually sterile, pathetically disposable consumers more interested in who sired Nicole's spawn than showing up to at least vote.
We are feminine, eager to please, embracing a status quo that is destroying this country the way a mother embraces her sweet, useless moron merely because its her son.
This is what we, like good quiet mothers who assume we cannot do anything but continue as slaves, have done to our country:
Price of gas is close to 4 dollars here and not a peep. We, like a good respectable Christian mothers who can barely verbalize protest let alone think it, show up at the pump every week, roll over and take it in the asshole.
You may question your boss's decisions, but you still have to abide by them.
You don’t see it- we are his boss. It is only American sloth that keeps it in theory.
I don't know why that puppy got thrown, and apparently people in this thread doubt whether that was a puppy and whatever.... It's none of my business. Puppies die every day, I don't go crazy about any of them. There are a lot of things people think are acceptable with animals and unacceptable with humans. We sterilize dogs without second thought, but it's not the same with people; we euthanise dogs, but it's not the same with people; we accept that there's too many deer in an area and that hunting should be allowed again for a while, but to say the same about people is somehow
But its a puppy!!!