Not to pick on you, but I always find it interesting how riled up and angry people can get over injustice to animals. I remember feeling the same way when I was small about some kids who were mean to cats or dogs. I would want to seriously hurt them. But I never understood why that made me so mad. I see the same reaction in my kids and other kids when it concerns pets.
I think part of this anger has to do with a feeling of injustice over smaller, helpless animals. It seems easy to get angry toward a bully, maybe because we are projecting our own frustrations. However when thinking of injustice that I or other people have suffered, I have a harder time getting as emotionally wound up. Have you ever noticed this?
It really makes no sense. People should be more important than animals, but people just don’t get as emotional when seeing other people suffering as they do when see an animal suffer. There is plenty of trouble in Darfur right now, in fact here’s always something brewing in Africa, some tribe being slaughtered with machetes or gunned down. But people just don’t seem to get so upset over it, certainly not like emotions you describe over the Vick case. Why do you think this is?
