I want to like the people of PETA, but they make it so damned hard. Don't get me wrong I care about animals as much as the next guy, but I enjoy my steak as well. But where I really loose PETA is when their members threaten to kill people over what they deem is bad and ignorant. In a recent NY Times article about scientists trying to discover why 8% of male sheep (rams) are gay they received over 20k letters from PETA containing quotes like these:
“you are a worthless animal killer and you should be shot,” “I hope you burn in hell” and “please, die.”
How ignorant do you have to spend all this time and energy to spare the lives of a few fuzzy mammals when there are so many other problems that deserve their attention. I know they want to stand up for the things that can't do it themselves that is why I have a list of issues that I feel are infinitely more important and deserve their help. It is only human to help other humans (though they may not realize this).
1. AIDS in Africa: Of the 2.4 mil that dies in 2002 over half of them were in Africa
2.Stopping the Iraq war: Less people have died in Iraq than in Vietnam, but about the same % of troops deployed and it is not winnable (war is never winnable)
3. Choose one: rebuilding after Katrina, genocide in Rwanda, gun violence in the US, world hunger, pollution/global warming (no animals we destroy their environment)
Any of these issues affects more people and sometimes even animals than some test sheep. Let the scientists do their jobs and help all of us with cures and research. They are the ones that are trying to help the whole by hurting the few which is the only logical way of doing it. Gains are not made by making everyone happy. Just know that for every 10 dollars you donate to PETA to save a rabbit or organize a protest you look like a heartless inhuman asshole because you could have given that 10 dollars to save a human life. But saving a small child in a 3rd world country is someone else's job, right?
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I really liked this post and it made me think about how I have been wasting my time lately. I am going to redirect my efforts to make a bigger and more important difference in the world.
The thing is, I am bothered by the title of this blog. Maybe it should be "Josh knows best about some things, but knows nothing about others" or something like that.
The main thing that concerns me is your knowledge of relationships with the opposite sex. But, being the highly intelligent person you seem to be, I'm sure you want to hear this and you will be able to ingest it and put the knowledge I am about to impart to good use.
1. Grown men who are straight don't have "best friends" who are women. If you are in a serious relationship, that is the only best friend you should have of the opposite sex. Any other "best friends" are just women who are waiting for you to break up with your girlfriend and fall for them. THEY ARE NOT YOUR FRIENDS!
2. When you love someone enough to have them move in with you, that means you are going to marry them or think you might. If that isn't the case, then you don't waste someone's time.
3. When you have the love of someone truly wonderful, you don't throw it away without major consequences that you will live with for the rest of your life.
4. Beautiful women who are smart, giving, loving, fun, like to cook, want to be with you forever, want to have your kids, want to take care of you - women like that are extremely rare. You treat them like the queens they are or you lose them. You don't do anything to make them unhappy, like having best friends who are women.
5. You are clearly a wonderful man. There is no doubt about that. Take it from another man who has been married to the same woman for 10 years, or ask any man you know who is married - there are things that you learn in life the easy way or the hard way. I pray that you will take my advice and learn this stuff the easy way.
If you love your girl, you need to make her the only woman in your life and give her a ring. If you can't do that, you are going to lose her and you will always regret it. There are no happily married men who have best friends who are women. It is always inappropriate.
Realize what you have in your woman and give her everything she really wants - your whole heart - your full committment - your whole life. You will never regret it.
She is a good woman and that is rarer than someone as young as you could yet know. If you lose her because of your committment to your "friends" who are women, one day you will realize that you were wrong and you will regret it for the rest of your life.
Make her your only best friend, make your life with her and reap the rewards!
And screw PETA - cause they are a bunch of morons and I'm done with them!
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