I sometimes feel bad for inanimate objects. Like if I have a bike and it sits there and gets rusty.. or a ball in the corner with dirt on it.. I sometimes feel bad for it. I know it doesn't have feelings but still I can't help but think about it sometimes. I don't spend lots of time feeling bad about this, but I definitely feel it when I see it. I was thinking the other day that killing anything even a fly really is sort of a messed up thing to do. Who the f am I to ruin a flys game? There is that whole bothering me thing and flys definitely are a nuisance but to kill them is wrong on some levels. I do it all the time and I think I am a d******d for it. Sure I eat meat but I can disassociate myself from the killing part because I am not the one doing it. I don't think of a plant as dead when I am eating it and wouldn't feel any different about a piece of meat. Afterall it's dead something.
Im not sure if youre entire post was sarcastic (I'm certain the first part was) ibtl, but flies deserve to die. They travel around and carry diseases. They feed on dog ****, so why would I let them land on my body. I would swat any that are in my house because I'm not gonna let them land on my meal. Anyways I think some weirdos feel more for animals than they do for people. Yesterday I saw a bum who could not walk. He looked drunk and/or his foot was severely injured. Some cops were next to him, and oddly enough a fire truck showed up. I felt bad as I looked down at such a helpless being.
I have some insects (I think some type of Silverfish; they look creepy) that get stuck in my guest bathroom tub. They just seem to get stuck in the tub and can't scale the tub walls...although you would think they could as they have a bunch of legs as far as I can see. So, I just help them out of there so they can run around my house and do whatever it is they do. True story, brahs. lol. I also tend to have spiders that spin their webs and set up shop in different areas of the house. Then, they start weaving those white egg things to hatching baby spiders. I wait a while until I think the eggs are getting ready to hatch (they tend to get darker and you can tell they are getting ripe) with all these babies coming out...and use the vacuum hose to remove them. But, I spare the spider and let the spider make its next move. If I see a spider walking on my floors without a web, then I relocate them outside versus kill them. The other day...a lizard got in my house and I played a cat-and-mouse game with it...until I spooked him out and then made a really quick move snagging him. After we looked at each other a bit admiring each other, I released him out back where a few other lizards live. I've seen a few of them doing their mating calls where their throats swell up. They like to get on top of my outdoor low wattage lights and do their mating calls or bask in the sun. I also dig the dead june bugs out of the pool skimmer basket and I set them up in a line near it. Then, a squirrel that hangs out comes over and eats them one by one. It takes its time with each one and meticulously devours each one in a routine where it devours the body parts in a certain order (rather than just eat the whole thing in one bite). It's pretty cool. I also saw a squirrel methodically devour a nest full of bird eggs by using its teeth to gnaw away the top in a circle and it literally drank the eggs like it was at a party. In summary, I try to spare insects when I can as they are not really bothering me...but I draw the line when they try to have babies in my house. lol
people generally should 'know better' and therefore they are given a shorter leash than animals. As for flys in the grand scheme of things what makes you more significant than a fly? I understand why you kill them as I do it too. But who are you to kill a fly? Just because you can, or they bring disease doesn't mean you have any place or more significance than it. Especially if you are not killing to eat it. mosquitos are the worst and they have done plenty of killing back to the human race. if we could eradicate that species altogether I would be for it, but it's not necessarily our 'right' to do that..on some level you can begin to feel bad for the mosquito.
Just so we are on the same page, here, I once you are dead you are dead. It is the suffering of animals that I find offensive, and the indifference to it that I find indicative of bad people. A few years ago I snapped the neck of a pigeon that was torn up by a cat and left to slowly die in my yard as that was the humane thing to do.
Man.. so sad.. I can see something dead and feel whatever about it, but man, I actually saw the pigeon dying slowly.. he tried to get up but couldn't.. I am going to go to the temple and pray today...
i have a whole slew of thoughts but they'll probably end up jumbled and about as comprehensible as literary vomit. but i feel for you man. be positive about it though... think about where the bird's spirit could be going if you believe in that sort of thing
A couple of months ago I found this dude down near Gulfgate Mall. You can see from the photos that most of his hair had fallen out, which I thought was mange. He was all skin and bones and was covered in sores. He also had a giant lump on his neck about the size of a nerf football that I thought was a tumor. This is maybe three days after I found him. At the time, he looked even worse. He was standing out in the rain, whimpering and crying, waking up to everybody that walked past, and I saw as four or five groups of people just walked right by without even so much as looking at him. I walked up to him and spoke to him and the first thing he did was curl up and put his head on my feet. I honestly brought him home to have a vet put him down, because he was so pathetic and he looked mostly dead. Turns out the "tumor" on the neck was a lipoma from trauma where someone hit him, and two vets thought he had mange, but couldn't find it and it turns out he didn't. Because the "tumor" was only a lipoma, we nursed him back to health. And finally, once his hair grew back it turns out that he is a full blooded German Shepherd. Through Facebook we found him a new home in Dallas. Now that he has been fed and his hair has grown back he looks awesome, and he is apparently the most super-loyal loving dog ever. There are sometimes tangible rewards for being a good person. Every time his new owners send me a video of him frolicking around in the yard with their child, I want to head back to where I found him, find the people who were just walked past ignoring the poor whimpering sad puppy, and beat the ever loving crap out of them.
That's very cool of you, Ottomaton! I know for a fact that if a stray dog walked up to me in a similar scenario...I would definitely take it in and care for it. But, it never seems to happen. This one time I saw a stray dog going through a parking lot and it wasn't stopping for nobody. A cop was trying to catch up to it but the dog was having none of that. It was like the dog knew where it was going but it obviously didn't...crossing busy streets and such. Many strays just will not let you get close. I could never, ever turn a dog away that came up to me whimpering in obvious need of help. Those scenarios only happened a few times in my entire life and at the house I grew up in. One was just a neighbor's new dog two doors down but we had no idea. Poor dog was freezing his tail off so we helped him and found out about the neighbor a few days later. I tend to draw the line if I have to chase after an animal...cause that is usually a lost cause.
it would be hard to leave a dog if its in bad shape. good of you to do that. karma rep for the little guy
From an "objective" stand point I agree that compassion for beings capable of broader spectrum of emotions (humans) should come first. However, I am one of those "weirdos". Something about us, unlike animals and pets, generally being responsible for our situation shifts this perspective. I am much much more sympathetic towards a pet being abused by an owner than a human being attacked by an animal.
good stuff bro. repped. i'm the biggest meat eater guy in the world and have absolutely no use for tree hugging animal rights people, but even I can see the need for humane treatment. i saw a raccoon spinning around in the street. Walked near it enough to see what was going on and saw he was bleeding profusely from the head (probably cracked his skull open or something). Didn't wanna go too near it because of rabies, but when it eventually stopped spinning around and was just lying there breathing, I grabbed a shovel and scooped him into a box and brought him to the vet. I knew there was no way he was gonna make it but I couldn't just leave the thing there to bleed to death on the street. The city was no help. They told me to wait till it died then call the sanitation dept. I wound up calling PETA and they were really helpful on how to deal with the situation.
Do I want to spend a crazy amount of money while looking at brown water? Not really. Will I? Eventually yeah, I'm guessing.
