Exactly. Get your priorities straight. Dogs: fun to have around but useless to the Society. We are the Society of Humans. We should take care of our own first, and then think about the giant octopuss, the flying spagghetti monster, the little grey aliens from Zeta Reticuli, etc.
SUCKMYMUSCLE
just the opposite, I think some of you need to get your priorities straight.
Many many great minds believe that a highly civilized evolved society is one where even the smallest are protected from harm and injustice. Its called trickle up compassion.
"If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men."
St. Francis of Assisi
"The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unhappy but hardly fit for life."
Albert Einstein
"I hold that, the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to the protection by man from the cruelty of man."
"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated"
Mohandas Gandhi
Here are just a few more people who agree.
Martin Luther King, Carly Simon, Frederick Douglass, Robert Louis Stevenson, John F. Kennedy, George Orwell, Mark Twain, Abraham Lincoln, Henry David Thoreau, Albert Einstein, George Bernard Shaw, Tom Regan, Peter Singer, Richard Ryder, Abraham Lincoln, Henry Salt, Victor Hugo, Alice Walker, Arthur Schopenhauer, Jimmy Stewart, Professor J. Howard Moore, Brigid Brophy, Jeremy Bentham, Thomas Jefferson, Carl Sagan, Norman Cousins, Leonardo Da Vinci, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Immanuel Kant, Arthur Schopenhauer, George Bernard Shaw, Mahatma Gandhi, E.S. Turner, Francis of Assisi, Albert Einstein, Albert Schweitzer, Pythagoras, Leo Tolstoy, James Herriott, Henry David Thoreau, Roger Caras, William Blake, Bertrand Russell, Francis Bacon, George Eliot, Seneca, Thomas Tryon, Buddha, Benjamin Disraeli, Victor Hugo, Abraham Lincoln, Richard Wagner, George Bernard Shaw, Charles Dickens, William Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Leo Tolstoy, Voltaire, C.S. Lewis, Mahatma Gandhi, Lewis Carroll, Robert Browning, Carl Jung
And for the religious folk...dont forget that Jesus saved a lamb from being sacrificed to God. He ridiculed and denounced it as sin. Funny how Christians never remember this one.
