Why do we value an animals life over a humans?
I would've shot the dog and that damn bunny too.
shareWhile I don't wish any terror on our furry friends, yeah, this bugs me, too. I hate in movies when animal lives are shown to matter while human lives are afterthoughts. Somebody always mentioned the Independence Day dog. In a disaster movie with millions of (human) lives being wasted, I find it a bit repugnant and ridiculous that the filmmakers show such a dramatic scene where we (the audience) are supposed to care about its fate as though whole cities haven't been vaporized.
share^ I agree. It annoys me a lot. The sacristy put on animals. Animals do their own "bad" *beep* too that we write off as just instinct and then say they are innocent and all. (Few examples...lion killing cubs so it can mate with a mom, I knew a group of pet dogs who ganged up and killed the one that was the favorite of its owner, etc.) But yet we still place them over fellow human beings as untouchable and deserving more sympathy. I really don't get it. I'm not meaning to say animals are evil either. Just, we humans are animals too and I think should look out for own species first. Other species too, but not this warped veneration.
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