Live Animals Are Stuck Inside These Plastic Keychains

[LuvLoogie]

71. I agree, the cups are a relatively new thing to me

When I was a kid, the bettas were kept in small bowls. And the small independent pet stores were usually pretty good about maintaining them (just a few or several at a time).

There was a chain in the Chicago area called Petworld. My friend's dad was a VP. My friend and I would do tank maintenance and set ups and staple flyers/couponbooks for mailings back in Jr. High. It was a great gig.

Animals in pet stores are never in an ideal setting, but this disposable pet thing in China is just base. I don't think it's a capitalist thing, but more a general antipathy toward any life. I don't know if it was like this before Mao, but you hear about the legendary infanticide of girl children.

The subordination of the self to the cultural revolution and the shear size and homogeony of the populace must lend itself to sociopathy being a survival advantage, especially during the ideological cleansing of the proles.

I will never forget that video of a few years ago that showed a van driver mow down a toddler in the street. He slowed down slightly to slowly roll his back wheel over the poor child's battered body-perhaps to not upset his cargo too much. Other passers by just nonchalantly walked around and past her as if avoiding a puddle.

I don't want to link to the video here, because it would ruin your day. It would bring you great sorrow and take days to recover.