I severely doubt you’ve tried extending compassion to any nonhuman things on their own terms rather than on ours. We’re smart enough versus a dog to play a kind of “coherent extrapolated volition” game. What ought I to want, if I were a dog, but given what I know as a human? “Intelligence. Urgently. Food can wait, I don’t give a damn if I’m cold or have fleas, fix my brain. I’m a fucking cripple.”
That is what the starting point of compassion for all life would look like. So, when you consider the puppy-rehomers, it’s pretty obvious they are just letting their cuteness instincts hijack their higher minds, and they want to spread the contagion.
“if I were a dog, but given what I know as a human?”
Intelligence (you’re joking)
Urgently (why are they always rushing about?)
Food can wait (you’re joking)
Fix their brain THEY are cripples—oh look at that rabbit—I’m outta here.
Why should I wish to extend compassion on non-human terms? I do not want a human dog, nor do they want to be human. They like being dogs—and now I’m talking nonsense. It’s sorta contagious.
I severely doubt you’ve tried extending compassion to any nonhuman things on their own terms rather than on ours. We’re smart enough versus a dog to play a kind of “coherent extrapolated volition” game. What ought I to want, if I were a dog, but given what I know as a human? “Intelligence. Urgently. Food can wait, I don’t give a damn if I’m cold or have fleas, fix my brain. I’m a fucking cripple.”
That is what the starting point of compassion for all life would look like. So, when you consider the puppy-rehomers, it’s pretty obvious they are just letting their cuteness instincts hijack their higher minds, and they want to spread the contagion.
“if I were a dog, but given what I know as a human?”
Intelligence (you’re joking) Urgently (why are they always rushing about?) Food can wait (you’re joking) Fix their brain THEY are cripples—oh look at that rabbit—I’m outta here.
Why should I wish to extend compassion on non-human terms? I do not want a human dog, nor do they want to be human. They like being dogs—and now I’m talking nonsense. It’s sorta contagious.