Thoughts On Spaying

It’s interesting that coincidentally after I published this:�http://myanimalcare.org/2013/07/07/an-owners-reluctance-to-have-her-female-dog-spayed/, a friend forwarded the link to a forum discussing the neutering and spaying of animals from a religious point of view.

I read some of the views and a few were realistic, quoting the suffering they had seen on the streets and were therefore supportive of neutering. A few were expounding the issue from the standpoint of moral righteousness and pre-birth-post-death world views. After all, it IS a religious forum, so such views would be expected.

But I found this view particularly interesting:

“I’d like to share a revelation that I�ve had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species, and I realised that humans are not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment; but you humans do not. Instead you multiply, and multiply, until every resource is consumed. The only way for you to survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern… a virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer on this planet, you are a plague, and we… are the cure.”

Looks like humans are the ones that need to be spayed first…

Large scale sterilization might help to reduce the burgeoning and utterly unsustainable growth of human population. People could be offered substantial cash incentives to have the procedure done (which should always be completely voluntary). They could then use the money to gain better access to education, which could improve their lives and the planet, rather then just popping out yet more humans. If we don’t correct ourselves, eventual food shortages, hunger, disease and starvation will. So it would save a lot of pain and trouble if we started on such a program now, imo.

Now, what would you say to that?

I was tickled by the fact that the commenter equated humans beings to viruses! I can’t say I disagree, actually, because I’ve always reflected on this: Humans think they rule the earth (now) and are the masters of all living beings, but eventually the ones who will destroy humans and rule the earth would be the viruses!

It’s true, we humans will either die of old age (if we’re lucky), accident or disease, and most incurable life-threatening diseases are caused by a fungus, a bacteria or a virus!

The meek shall inherit the earth, and we’re not talking about lambs here, are we?

Source: http://myanimalcare.org/2013/07/11/thoughts-on-spaying/

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