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Animals who think they are activists for the rights of non human species deserve to be forced to clean up the mess they cause.
D. Brian Casady
Quid Llatine Dictum Sit, Altum Viditur.
Advanced is being able to do the basics while your leg is on fire---Bill Jeans
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up---Robert Frost
This is a common trait for a lot of folks of the so called "liberal" bent. They claim compassion for less fortunate people (or animals), when in fact they have disdain for the objects of their compassion and derive their satisfaction from deciding how they should live their lives, not from allowing them to make their own decisions, and the good feeling they get from being so "caring".
I have acquaintances, even family members, who are by any standard wealthy, living in enormous houses, driving luxury vehicles, wearing designer clothing, jetting all over the world for vacations, who decry the "shameful wastefulness" and "blatant consumerism" of the American lifestyle and how we squander resources. They like to go to Third World countries on brief church mission trips to help for a few days in building schools or churches, then come home and lament how ignorant and benighted "those people" are -- but are they, themselves willing to give away a single luxury or privilege so that those less fortunate might be have the resources to determine their own fates? No way! It's all about feeling good over how special ( and "correct") they are. They criticize someone like me who'll forego a weekend trip to the mountains so I can donate $100 to a worthy cause, but not spend $1000 or more to fly to Belize for 5 days and contribute labor which, on the local market, could be had for maybe $3. Yet, I'm giving enough to hire an entire crew for a week, while they are taxing the resources of the locals just by being there, and burning tons of jet fuel to do it. It's completely nuts!