Those Poor Animals

So I’m walking through the living room where my family is watching the New Year’s Days Parade, and a commercial comes on with the lead sentence, every 10 seconds some animal is abused in America.” From there they went to camera shots of pets that had been abused. It was obviously an appeal to sympathy.

Now, I’m as sensitive a guy as the next guy but personally I was disgusted by the commercial. Here we have a culture that is killing 1.3 million babies annually and I’m expected to feel sorry for a bunch of dumb animals? Certainly, seeing any of God’s creation abused is sad but can we get a sense of proportion?

I also noted the power of imagery. They put these poor suffering animals on the screen and instantly the instinct is to feel sympathy and yet it is considered taboo to show pictures of slaughtered babies.

This commercial reminded me how hardened and cynical this culture is. It disgusts me that this is “my culture.”

Anybody want to bet a large sum of money that the very people who made this “feel sorry for the pets of the world” commercial are also people who strongly support abortion?

Author: jetbrane

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3 thoughts on “Those Poor Animals”

Pagans have always held the image of animals to be sacred, while regarding the image of God with a murderous hatred.

Susan,

This has nothing to do with having children. This has to do with being human.

As I said in the post this is all about proportionality. I don’t mind people offended by abused animals. I do mind people being offended by abused animals who can’t be or aren’t outraged times a million by abused people. The way that I reckon it there is a limit to how much outrage that someone can generate. The more outrage that is spent on abused animals the less outrage there is to spend on abused people.

My children have two cats, so I’m not hardened to being fond of animals.

And speaking only for myself … I do feel guilty that children are abused. Abortion has happened on my watch and I am responsible.