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Again, everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but sometimes you have to learn when to voice it and when to keep it to yourself. In this instance, continuing to belittle animal life on a forum mostly filled with animal lovers is not a smart idea as it will only cause everyone else here to bash you regardless if it is right or wrong.
Very true. It would be the same case if you were to go onto a Christian forum with atheist views and opinions. Generally speaking, if your view differs too much from the group's, you will be "attacked".
Honestly, the two reasons I decided to post were that 1) I felt empathy towards this young girl who was all alone getting "attacked". I've been there and I know how it feels and don't wish it on others and wish someone would have helped me out the times it happened to me and 2) I wanted to try and teach TOLERANCE, and also to get people with a particular viewpoint to at least think more about it, look at the issue from a different perspective, go more in depth with it, just think is all, sometimes we get too wrapped up inside our own little boxes and need to learn to step outside that box and see things in a different light. It was and is not my intention to change anyone's viewpoint.
For the record, for the most part I have the same views and opinions as most on this forum do concerning animals, just ask my husband. I'm the type who catches Crane Flies when they get in the house and go set them free outside as I'd rather that if that Crane Fly was meant to die that he die by the natural order of things. I do the same for spiders, I'll catch them in a jar and set them free outside, I stop and get turtles off the road, I take them to a safe place away from the road, and the list goes on. My husband does not share my viewpoint and as such if he finds a spider or any other bug in the house he just squishes it, without a second thought. But yet, we are married, we ACCEPT each other's different viewpoints, we accept that we are different and we RESPECT each other's viewpoint. Sometimes my husband will tell me he saw a spider or whatever somewhere, cause he'd rather just not bother with it at all, go thru the trouble of trying to kill it or whatever and he knows I'll go catch whatever it is and release it, he doesn't agree but we don't get in fights over it either.
I understand that people have strong opinions about certain issues but one really should stop and figure out why exactly one is getting SO MAD and trying to argue a particular viewpoint with a person who is NOT even arguing for OR against EITHER viewpoint, THAT is what is scary. I mean just how far will that anger go? It obviously starts getting to the point where one will start treating another human being worse from a psychological standpoint than he/she should be treated, what next? It's a step by step process, it can be anyway, how bout people who feel SO STRONGLY about abortion that they go and burn down abortion clinics? (Just an example, there are many others). A person thinks something isn't right, in their opinion it is wrong, but yet then they will go do wrong trying to "correct" it, altho in their eyes they think it's right, you see where I'm going with this? Right, wrong, in the eye of the beholder? Two wrongs don't make a right,etc. Mental abuse because someone else does not hold your same opinion or viewpoint?
Just my thoughts...
