As hinted at - there is a documented association between severe animal abuse and later graduation to murder/serial killing. It’s fine by me if someone wants to donate money to catch these people.
I thought Richard Pryor was dead too.
Maybe he just has a very good agent.
In an extreme situation, a human (well, an unijured human) can participate in his own “rescue,” whatever that may entail. Most animals cannot. Unless you have a case where helping animals was prioritized over helping injured humans, you have to take that into account. Domestic animals are pretty much completely dependent on humans, on good days as well as bad days. Such is not necessarily the case for most healthy humans, in most situations.
Or he is coordinating the efforts from beyond the grave.
Well, when I’m found electrocuted, strangled, shot, suffocated, and drowned in a burlap sack at the bottom of some sewerage pit, I hope these stars put a bounty on the head of my murderer (most likely, a close associate).
Peace.
Most of the other problems you’ve mentioned could be greatly alleviated if more people acted with more humanity and compassion - two qualities that are lacking in anyone who would torture a helpless animal. Mindlessness and cruelty have to be fought by any means necessary, regardless of whether the victim is human or otherwise. It’s the same problem.
Meh.
It is common for celebrities and their (forgive me) pet causes to make me hold my head in my hands; but this doesn’t bother me much.
It’s their money… they can spend it as they see fit, and if it is spent to see a puppy drownderer (hey! A new word! Pay attention OED!) brought to justice, then more power to 'em, I say.
My 2 cents.
Well, that last one wasn’t originally posted on this board…
Perhaps an explanation is in order.
For most of my life, I grew up in a country where dogs and cats and such were considered nuisances rather than pets. If people kept pets, they kept birds or fish. An organization akin to the ASPCA would be considered absurd and ridiculous there. (My many relatives here follow the same pattern: they may keep birds or fish but never cats or dogs.)
I do like dogs and cats, but I guess I need to become more familiar with their importance and value here in the US.
WRS - One foot in the West, one foot in the East. Hopefully, I won’t fall.
You know what? The more I deal with people, the less I think they’re worth my help. The only thing people actually NEED is education and desire to excel. Everything else is just empty, feel good altruism, with a bit of guilt tossed in for good measure. Sure, I feel bad for the victims of AIDS and the starvation of kids in Africa, but honestly, all it takes to halt BOTH of those things in their tracks is for people to STOP FUCKING. Period. No great grass roots movement, no giant global bureaucracy or program, just education, on how to stem the tide. It’s not all that bloody difficult.
People in the Middle East will be killing each other until hell freezes over, it’s just what they do. They’ve got all the money they can burn, and the potential to be as great as they once were, but their Achilles Heel is Religion. Violent Muslim fundamentalists will continue to kill people that don’t believe the way they do, even if America just evaporates tomorrow.
Globally accessable healthcare. You’re joking, right?
Women. No longer victims of domestic abuse? Right. Look, there’s no amount of money that you could give a woman to change her life, who believes the man that beats her, does so out of love. I have absolutely ZERO sympathy for repeat victims of domestic abuse, be they male OR female. They stay because they WANT to stay. Not my problem.
Teenagers with suicidal ideations? Perish the thought. Once again, I think money is not the answer.
Personally, were this my pooch, I would spend all of my money and time searching for the sonofabitch who did that, and once I found them, would spend what remained, both time and money, dolling out some of the sickest punishment ever to be imagined, so sick that not even the entire collective of minds here could fully comprehend it.