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Liberalynn

(7,549 posts)
Mon Mar 30, 2015, 01:34 PM Mar 2015

Animal Rights Advocates

Doesn't it make you mad when you say something in defense of animals how there is always someone who replies "well what about people, shouldn't you be caring more about them, doing more for them" as if the two are mutually exclusive?

I responded I care about both as I feel many compassionate people do.Geez!

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Animal Rights Advocates (Original Post) Liberalynn Mar 2015 OP
and it's not like they sublimate animal stuff into increased human-rights activism, either! MisterP Mar 2015 #1
good point Liberalynn Mar 2015 #3
I say no allforone Mar 2015 #2
No to which part? Liberalynn Mar 2015 #4
Shouldn't you care more about people allforone Mar 2015 #5
gotcha! Liberalynn Mar 2015 #6

MisterP

(23,730 posts)
1. and it's not like they sublimate animal stuff into increased human-rights activism, either!
Mon Mar 30, 2015, 01:53 PM
Mar 2015

in fact, the higher they think of humanITY they more hate they have for actual people, since they can never meet their prescriptive standards

anyone remember Chico Mendes?!

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