I am personally an animal lover: I believe that they deserve respect and that abusers should incur severe punishment. However, when I see the animal rights activism today, it just makes me lose faith in humanity. It seems like it has turned into some cesspool of borderline animal worship, human shunning, racism, etc. There was even a page that compared animal abuse to child abuse and one of the answers said something like "some children deserve to be abused no animal does" and it was one of the highest rated opinions. There was also someone who told me about someone running over her child just to save her cat. There was also someone on YouTube who said that he would rather kill his whole family than let his dog die. On a lesser scale, people whine about dogs suffering when dyed with safe dye when they can't even see themselves, let alone their fur colours, and look very happy after the dye procedure. And the list goes on...
I do love animals, and I think all life, regardless of animal or humans, should be treated with respect. However, looking at many of these animal lovers and self-proclaimed "animal rights activists" just ticks me off. Is this normal to feel this way?
P.S. I know most (97% at the very least) animal lovers wouldn't go this far, but it's disturbing how many people think like this.
I do love animals, and I think all life, regardless of animal or humans, should be treated with respect. However, looking at many of these animal lovers and self-proclaimed "animal rights activists" just ticks me off. Is this normal to feel this way?
P.S. I know most (97% at the very least) animal lovers wouldn't go this far, but it's disturbing how many people think like this.
I don't believe those examples portray people who love animals accurately. You're looking at a very small percentage of them, which is important to remember. I love animals but I would never condone child abuse, etc. And I don't think most people would.
There are some animal rights activists that take it too far, though (I know one). There is extremism in any belief.
When people put the welfare of animals over the welfare of people, their children, etc. Or let their animals harm themselves and others, it bugs me.
Then again some other people I know, also animal protection activists, are like saints and role-models who would make this world generally a much better place if they were only larger in numbers.
Any generalization one makes is obviously false, but reading your question I was like "yes I totally know the type" and those kind of people definitely piss me off too:/