Me

A friend told me today that she hated animals. For a few seconds, I was speechless. I do realize that a lot of people hate them, but I just can't understand it. What's there to hate? They are innocent. She said they were dirty.. and this is the same reason many other people I know mention.

I told her that I think it's very bad to hate them. To me, it is deeply immoral. It is like hating babies, or hating babies cause they shit in their diapers.

What do people expect? For animals to be clean and "civilized" like us? But they are animals; they are what they are. We should just accept that. After all, we could've so easily been born animals ourselves (well, technically, we already are animals..).

I feel so passionately about it.. I was thinking about it for quite some time after she said it. Well I don't want to sound so high and mighty of course, but I feel quite disappointed in her. She has turned out to be so typically.. Indian, in the bad sort of way... I sort of got the feeling that she was like that, when we first met, but I was hoping I was wrong.

What shallow reasons to hate something!