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Crusaders for Animal Rights, take that cross and shove it up your bony vegetarian ass.

I wonder sometimes if the teenage children of the American middle-class had all the creativity and ambition sucked out of them at birth and filled that mindless void instead with political causes. I'm not saying that having a political cause is always a bad thing, but I would prefer that it be saved for a portion of the populace that has enough life experience to accurately assess the society in which they live. A white-collar middle-management's snotty blond offspring whose greatest angst for the day amounts to a spiteful peer insulting her hairstyle is not my idea of a person with the mature perspective to prioritize humanity's necessary improvements.

Let's not even look at the kind of abuse and neglect heaped upon our own pets, supposedly animals we love. The dogs tied up and dying of thirst whilst their owners drink up in the Bahamas, the cats thrown off roofs or tied to firecrackers... none of my concern. Don't bother with the endangered species hunted down in Asia simply so some misogynistic asshole can eat his obscure 3,000 year-old voodoo soup, because that's what it takes for him to get it up. Forget the torched habitats of small furry creatures in South America and the elephants killed for one piece of yellowed bone in Africa.

We might as well pop up the image of some emaciated baby dying on a dirty mat in some third-world cesspool. They are all just masks we use to cover up the real ills of society. Because the fact is that you can't improve that dark seething pit of cruelty and apathy in humanity's heart by picketing the local hospital or sending your dime a month to a nameless kid in Africa. All you are doing is making *yourself* feel noble. And once that is done, you settle down into your apathetic, destructive lives and slowly lapse back into what you were all along: a heartless, popularity-driven bastard sucking up the resources of the world for your SUV and disposable diapers.

So before you protest injecting those cute little mice with horrible toxins, prioritize a little. What will really improve mankind and the world we are currently destroying one Happy Meal at a time? What cause will mend that chasm in our own souls instead of just covering up? Because it hasn't been found yet, not in any religion, cause, or magical drug.

And trust me, if they found that drug, I wouldn't just be lining up to inject it into fluffy caged rodents, I'd be first in line myself.