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I have only said to directly save humans over any animal.

On any thread regarding animals, there are always those willing to surf by and hurl a puppy bomb into the discussion. No one on the thread has yet replied that they consider animal life above or equal to human life, they just share a common concern about the critters of this world caught in the same disaster as their betters. No one has posted "Save Dogs Not People!", nor "Save the Cats, Let the People Drown!". No, no one on this forum has posted such nonsense. Just their concern and the hope that consideration can be shown to God's lessor creatures when time and resource permit.

But then, some dick-head always has to swagger in on the thread, hike his pants up to his belly, spit and declare in a condescending manner, what is already obvious to all.

The only contribution these people make to such a thread with their "reality check", is to inform one and all that they have a superiority complex. The only information that they impart to the discussion that is of any value , is that they are a poster who needs to be avoided and ignored.

Now, don't you have some kittens to drown?!

But then, some dick-head always has to swagger in on the thread, hike his pants up to his belly, spit and declare in a condescending manner, what is already obvious to all.

Well, that apparently is not true among FReepers, as this was posted on #12:

Apologies for sounding harsh, but my animals - my babies - are more important to me than you are.

The vast majority of humanity is less important to me than my dog and cats.

This was followed by "cubreporter" replying to that simply with this:

Good for you. You are a kind, loving person who would help someone else.

I find this thinking bizarre.

The article started off this way:

As Valerie Bennett was evacuated from a New Orleans hospital, rescuers told her there was no room in the boat for her dogs. She pleaded. ``I offered him my wedding ring and my mom's wedding ring,'' the 34-year-old nurse recalled Saturday. They wouldn't budge. She and her husband could bring only one item, and they already had a plastic tub containing the medicines her husband, a liver transplant recipient, needed to survive. Such emotional scenes were repeated perhaps thousands of times along the Gulf Coast last week as pet owners were forced to abandon their animals in the midst of evacuation.

My initial comment was this:

Animals do not matter in the face of the immediate life or death of humans.

This is true of any person, be they conservative, independent, or liberal.

We are stewards of animals and have dominion over them. They must suffer for our good when necessary.

I maintain that this is how it must be--even with those who have a heart.

So I encourage you to reread what you think must already be obvious to everyone. You might just wind up attacking the positions of others over my own.