It's a little funny that you're having a stronger reaction...
Yeah, I'm not sure why that is, but it's always been that way for me. Animals are like children, i guess. We bring them into our homes and our lives and take away from the their ability to defend themselves or live without us. That makes them our responsibility. And even though the same could really be said of humans when we make them slaves, for some reason it just doesn't hit the same level of outraged sadness in me... at least not in fiction. In RL I can barely stand to watch some of the crime shows on the History channel... too much glorying in blood and dead bodies and broken, twisted minds.
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Date: 2006-06-07 05:25 am (UTC)Yeah, I'm not sure why that is, but it's always been that way for me. Animals are like children, i guess. We bring them into our homes and our lives and take away from the their ability to defend themselves or live without us. That makes them our responsibility. And even though the same could really be said of humans when we make them slaves, for some reason it just doesn't hit the same level of outraged sadness in me... at least not in fiction. In RL I can barely stand to watch some of the crime shows on the History channel... too much glorying in blood and dead bodies and broken, twisted minds.