No Empathy
July 10th 2011 21:00
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I cannot believe this. Brett – who screws up his face whenever he hears about cruelty to cats – told me when he was young he used to impale cane toads. He even thought it was funny.
Talk about speciesism! How come it's okay to kill cane toads but not okay to harm cats? Shouldn’t all creatures be treated equally?
Now out comes my inner hypocrite. Cleaning the house the other day, I noticed a large cockroach on the floor. You know the ones. They are the size of your thumb. They come with wings and they can fly. The ones my father calls “Chinese cockroaches”. I thought about killing it but thought better of it. Instead, I picked it up with a tissue and managed to force it out the window. But then I spied a Daddy long legs in the living room. Did I do the same thing? No. I squashed it with the same tissue.
And what about my meat eating (although, due to my weight loss regime, I am now consuming less than before)?
“The big worm eats the little worm,” says Andrea in her defence of meat eaters.
“I eat meat because almost all living things eat each other. We happen to be at the top of the food chain,” said Fred, independently paraphrasing Andrea.
Maybe we are all hypocrites.
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