St. Maarten Private Eye

Sorry LH, I just don't feel anyway about cockfighting for entertainment. I do not feel a single iota of displeasure about it being used as entertainment. That, to use your words, is my humble opinion. Sorry. I guess we'll have to agree to disagree on this one. Do I think some terrible abuse towards some animals is horrid, yes I do. But cockfighting isn't one of them. I think you guys miss my point. We are harping on how I feel and think about cruelty towards animals. This was not my central point. My point remains the COMPARISON between cockfighting and slavery. Nonsense! What makes my perspective wrong? Because its contrary to yours and Fuzz's and Flip's and whoever else. That doesn't make it wrong, hence the word perspective. I happen to think that my perspective is right. I also strongly believe using slavery as comparison to fighting chickens is downright insulting. The insult I feel is real. You cannot put human suffering, human slavery in the same context or sentence as fighting chickens. And to make the argument that I am taking it "from the wrong perspective" is disturbingly shallow. Do you think I would be the ONLY person who would read that and pull the piece of slavery out and feel insulted? Do you not see how using such a sensitive subject to make a point could overshadow whatever else a writer is trying to say? Then you might answer and say but it's how you take it". And you would be absolutely right. I took it as an insult to put slaves and chickens in the same context. In fact, lets do this, send this same story to The Daily Herald. Please send it through. Then watch to see the reactions. But then I suppose the many people who would be offended would be looking at it "from the wrong perspective" as well.

JB.

So your fish didn't suffer? Did the fish tell you that? So catching a fish and killing it right away isn't cruelty to animals? So fighting is cruel and killing is not? It's a convenient cop-out. Again, we'll have to agree to disagree I guess LH.

Please READ:

http://www.tolerance.org/news/article_tol.jsp?id=1266

http://www.bomanijones.com/blog/2005/08/12/peta-gets-it-all-wrong/