Thanks for that wonderful, concise post Persephone…but I only have TWO children. I do agree with everything you said though.
ummmmmm…
Make that THREE children…and a wife, and a live-in houseguest, and, for the moment, two dogs.
Whoops! Sorry 'bout that! 
…what Persephane said.
(And I am a well-established animal freak, not just lover)
Errr…Persephone…
Everyone has different tastes…
I happen to think that a crack about losing a baby, however well it illustrates a point, is in poor taste. Like I think AIDS jokes are in poor taste. I know that a newbie used a similar comment about the Holocaust recently, and good lord 55 people jumped down his throat with Doc Martens on.
My point (and I do have one!) is that this reflects my personal perspective. I’m free to let my opinion of someone who posts about those things be adjusted accordingly. I’m not sure, however, it’s worth a new thread direction, telling the poster how I feel, berating him for being offensive or, (as I’ve seen in other threads) claiming to be the judge and jury who is the bearer of an undocumented SDMB community standard. If it’s worthy of debate, why not give it its own thread?
Hijack over, personal soapbox taken down and broken up for firewood.
Suffice to say that I have a mother-in-law who lost a daughter at birth, and who also lost a beloved pet after many years, and I am equally aware of the devastation she felt in both cases. I am neither stupid nor do I condescend to believe that everyone who thinks and feels, thinks and feels as I do.
More to the point, on a daily basis am referred to, even tangentially and sometimes unknowingly, as . . . let’s see, in this thread alone I was a “sappy animal freak” and a “animal rights bull[feces] lover,” in others I’ve been a “vegetarian weirdo,” “animal loving moron,” etc., etc., ad infinitum, ad nauseum. Apparently I am supposed to merely take it on the chin, especially when thrust forth by dangerously uninformed people.
Was my comment in bad taste? Probably. It was meant to be. Anyone who would say to me, upon the death of one of my pets, “Get over it, you can just buy another one,” would quickly be introduced to the sole of my shoe, as it planted itself on their rear end and kicked it through my door. I would react to such a statement exactly as many of you did to my comment. If that makes me a weirdo, or a freak, too bad.