Pets are Good Company, Treat Them That Way

Pet Store Animals, Excluding the Fish, Being Removed From Mall

By David Morton | June 15, 2010, 11 a.m.
Employees with the McKamey Animal Shelter and the Tennessee Department of Agriculture are removing all the animals, excluding the fish, from a Chattanooga pet store Tuesday morning.
http://chattarati.com/metro/government-politics/2010/6/15/pet-stores-animals-excluding-fish-removed-mall/

Cruelty against humanity is atrocious, and should be our top priority, but, IMHOToday, there is something simply pathetic as well as wicked about cruelty to animals. Animals are pretty defenseless against their captors so it’s especially pathetic to see them mistreated. Cruelty in any form is something I fight hard against when I am witness to it. That includes moments I have seen it in myself.

IMHOToday, it shows that man is NOT innately good, but that he can sink down to desperate levels of depravity through the natural progression of habit. If The Pet Company is guilty of mistreating animals, I am sure they didn’t start out with that intent. It was most likely a natural progression of dealing with the difficulties of baby animals that began a more callous, careless treatment of their “stock”.

I think this is similar to the atrocities that have been found (and believe me, there are plenty more) in nursing homes. The people left here are often catatonic, and if they’re not, many are complaining and difficult. So the people who do this thankless job become less caring; they stop seeing the poor people as people. Some become truly abusive or passively so, allowing patients to languish in their own filth, and not receive timely care and attention.

It’s the same reason we need the type of government with checks and balances; an imbalance of power is a dangerous thing. Man is not innately bad, but with too much power I guarantee he’ll turn out that way.