maybe to you. not to the woman who loved her dog. i wouldn’t tell certain people their sadness is microscopic compared to those who lose a person to something.
yeah it’s not a person, but it’s still a living thing that was not only an object of a person’s love, but it gave joy and affection back to the person/people that loved it.
for some people their animals are all they have left. i wouldn’t tell them their sadness was microscopic compared to a stranger they’ve never met who died. your scale may be set that way, hers probably isn’t.
and just to stop the potential assinine attack before it begins i’m not saying animals and people are equal.
I agree with much of what you wrote.
Except, I value animals over throat cutting savages. Period.
Especially pigs.
Muslims everywhere will rejoice at this turn of events.
As a dear FReeper friend has reminded me, there has never been a single, verifiable case of Ebola being transmitted by a dog.
Just hysterical rumors.
Let's see how this plays out.
I made a post noting that humans and dogs are not equal - the loss of a human is immeasurably more sad than the loss of a dog.
Secret Agent Man then posts three paragraph diatribe excoriating that position. But, (he insists) he isn't saying that position is wrong.
How does that work?