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Cats, murder, and justice.
Jan. 17th, 2002 10:27 pmI think there are certain things in this universe that are just wrong.
Torturing cats? Wrong.
Now, don't get me wrong. I'm in favour of animal testing. I'm a meat eater. This is an act of purest hypocrisy for me to say this. But torturing a housecat is wrong.
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1011222139057&call_page=TS_GTA&call_pageid=968350130169&call_pagepath=GTA/News&col=969483202845
It's not just that they seemed to feel that they could wrangle their way out of it by saying they were trying to make 'art' or trying to 'make a statement'. Which is just bullshit.
I read a tag line that said 'all art kills something soft and fuzzy'. Which is pretty much bullshit.
It's an angry that's walking around on my back. It paces back and forth, and climbs up the side of my head till I twitch it off. It'll try both sides, then I'll flick it off again.
I wanted to post something about it to rec.pets.cats. I did. Then I took a look at the list. Christ. There's people in there who really love their pets. I didn't want to subject them to it. It's like with children. They don't need to know about this. Any sense of justice they get probably won't be able to overcome the revulsion they feel.
Justice can be really hollow. It's not even "They lived happily ever after". It's "they lived on, in pain, but the villain would suffer too".
Another reason the angry gets on my back is my wife and I had to put down our cat this year. His name was Spooky, and we'd gotten him from the Humane Society as a kitten only a year before. He'd been reasonably good, with occasional minor illnesses. Then, one day, his kidneys went.
There were a lot of bad things about that. Losing a pet is always bad (if you've got a pet, and don't have enough of an emotional bond to feel sad when they die, get a goldfish). But, for me, I've never lost one this way before. I've never had to watch anyone I love, person or pet, just waste away.
The feeling of helplessness is one that's just too endemic to the human race. It's the sort of thing that drives you to or from God. To have someone you love just stop working, and not be able to do anything. It was the same feeling I had Sept. 11. The feeling like there's nothing that can be done, that the world is now going to be worse.
So, yeah. Justice will be done. As much as it can. The bad people will go somewhere just as bad. Maybe they'll come out sorry.
Christ. When I started, I was going to write a whimsical piece on why people who go to the movies not knowing what they want to see are idiots. Can't I do ANYTHING right?
Torturing cats? Wrong.
Now, don't get me wrong. I'm in favour of animal testing. I'm a meat eater. This is an act of purest hypocrisy for me to say this. But torturing a housecat is wrong.
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1011222139057&call_page=TS_GTA&call_pageid=968350130169&call_pagepath=GTA/News&col=969483202845
It's not just that they seemed to feel that they could wrangle their way out of it by saying they were trying to make 'art' or trying to 'make a statement'. Which is just bullshit.
I read a tag line that said 'all art kills something soft and fuzzy'. Which is pretty much bullshit.
It's an angry that's walking around on my back. It paces back and forth, and climbs up the side of my head till I twitch it off. It'll try both sides, then I'll flick it off again.
I wanted to post something about it to rec.pets.cats. I did. Then I took a look at the list. Christ. There's people in there who really love their pets. I didn't want to subject them to it. It's like with children. They don't need to know about this. Any sense of justice they get probably won't be able to overcome the revulsion they feel.
Justice can be really hollow. It's not even "They lived happily ever after". It's "they lived on, in pain, but the villain would suffer too".
Another reason the angry gets on my back is my wife and I had to put down our cat this year. His name was Spooky, and we'd gotten him from the Humane Society as a kitten only a year before. He'd been reasonably good, with occasional minor illnesses. Then, one day, his kidneys went.
There were a lot of bad things about that. Losing a pet is always bad (if you've got a pet, and don't have enough of an emotional bond to feel sad when they die, get a goldfish). But, for me, I've never lost one this way before. I've never had to watch anyone I love, person or pet, just waste away.
The feeling of helplessness is one that's just too endemic to the human race. It's the sort of thing that drives you to or from God. To have someone you love just stop working, and not be able to do anything. It was the same feeling I had Sept. 11. The feeling like there's nothing that can be done, that the world is now going to be worse.
So, yeah. Justice will be done. As much as it can. The bad people will go somewhere just as bad. Maybe they'll come out sorry.
Christ. When I started, I was going to write a whimsical piece on why people who go to the movies not knowing what they want to see are idiots. Can't I do ANYTHING right?
