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Writer's Block: Pet central
May. 3rd, 2010 12:10 pm[Error: unknown template qotd]
Well that is a prejudiced question if I ever heard one. Which is why everybody answering it goes "THAT IS SO DUMB". Of course they do!
Listen, as an animal welfare kinda-activist who's never heard of this thing before, I'm 98 per cent sure that this isn't an actual attempt at replacing the word "pet owner" with "pet guardian". It doesn't mean that all animal activist groups everywhere immediately abandon all their causes for this one; "Welp, we were making some headway on the slaughter of red-listed animals but I suppose this word thing is the rallying point now."
It's not about importance, animal activist groups do this thing occasionally to raise awareness, to make people think. Even such completely insane groups as PETA (it hurts to know that this is what so many people think of when they hear "animal activists") has to know that language doesn't work that way.
It's just an attempt to make people reflect on how animals - yes, even that stray cat that lives in the abandoned shed across the road - are living beings. That even if you purchase a dog, you haven't the right to kick it when it pees on the floor. But every time someone does campaigns like this to simply raise awareness, the media and others completely overshadow the intention by going "HURR DEY SO DUMB".
Well that is a prejudiced question if I ever heard one. Which is why everybody answering it goes "THAT IS SO DUMB". Of course they do!
Listen, as an animal welfare kinda-activist who's never heard of this thing before, I'm 98 per cent sure that this isn't an actual attempt at replacing the word "pet owner" with "pet guardian". It doesn't mean that all animal activist groups everywhere immediately abandon all their causes for this one; "Welp, we were making some headway on the slaughter of red-listed animals but I suppose this word thing is the rallying point now."
It's not about importance, animal activist groups do this thing occasionally to raise awareness, to make people think. Even such completely insane groups as PETA (it hurts to know that this is what so many people think of when they hear "animal activists") has to know that language doesn't work that way.
It's just an attempt to make people reflect on how animals - yes, even that stray cat that lives in the abandoned shed across the road - are living beings. That even if you purchase a dog, you haven't the right to kick it when it pees on the floor. But every time someone does campaigns like this to simply raise awareness, the media and others completely overshadow the intention by going "HURR DEY SO DUMB".
