On Sat, 12 Sep 1998 19:28:59 +0100, Katie Law wrote:

>I never said it was.
>Educational maybe.
>They are well cared for.

Sorry if I touched a raw wire here, KT.

I fail to see any value in us humans educating ourselves by caging
animals or, indeed, perverting their natural habitat and breeding to
produce 'child safe' pets.

What gives us *any* rights to have so cutely called 'pets'?  What gives
us *any* right to do what we do to other species in the name of
education?  Whose education?  What for?  Wanna education? Go out and
look in your back garden, there is plenty of wild life there :-)

>Allowing my children to have pets does not imply that I don't.(care)

It is not a question of care and love, qualities that you have plenty
of.

It is a question of roles and 'existence'.  True caring for other
species is to leave them well alone.  My own 'Theory of Evolution'
states that the whole thing is back to front and that we are in fact
will be 'evolving' to higher beings such as viruses and such like.

We humans just cannot put our hands in our pockets and stop interfering
with many processes.  We just keep on interfering and buggering things
up in the name of 'humanity', 'education', preservation' and a host of
other well meaning causes only found in the 'Chipping Norton Manual for
Saving the World'.

Said world will do just nicely if we stopped messing about with it.

Whilst in a visit to Egypt recently, I looked in the eye of a crocodile
that was in a cage.  That 'animal' had seen the world 100,000s of years
before I even existed!

All I could say to it was: "I am sorry".

My only hope is that the Peter's Principle will eventually apply to the
human species when it rises to its own level of incompetence and depart
this world.

Ahmad
(Founder of the radical 'EcoMed Warriors')

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