Quote: (08-25-2014 06:56 AM)It_is_my_time Wrote:
....nurturing a helpless animal who is dependent upon them, and even more so being in control of this helpless animal is on par with them nurturing a helpless baby.
This is very true, for "pet people" and PETA types, both male and female, though it is probably more pronounced in females. Fact is, an animal is easier than a person. Animals don't disagree with you or vote differently than you, they depend upon you but are easier to control and usually less expensive to maintain than a child. They take the place of intimacy and fit perfectly where a human relationship would ordinarily go. But when you get right down to it, an animal isn't going to take care of you when you get old, it isn't going to find the cure for cancer, and it isn't going to raise your kids, if you ever have any.
Add to this the reality that animals and pets are something they see every day in person, whereas African AIDS, Islamic subjugation of women, North Korean prison camps, etc. take a lot of effort to see and are usually only viewed indirectly at a great distance, if at all.
I don't mean to classify pet owners as being this way, but "pet people" are those who treat their pets like kids (and often, their kids like pets). These kinds of people are generally present in first world centers of gluttony and sloth like the US and Western Europe.