If charity money were a fixed amount of money, I'd agree with you that improving human life outranks improving animal life.
But this isn't a zero-sum game. I don't have to spend less on humanitarian crises to buy a bag of kibble for a suffering dog. I just need to spend a little less this month on Starbucks and shiny new cell phones and the other things that a lot of us in Qatar spend more money on than we really should.
Having a pet, or caring for stray animals, is hardly the most frivolous, wasteful use of money going on in Qatar. Unless you want to argue (as Jesus did) that our obligation to the poor requires us to give up ALL our luxuries so that ALL our income can go to the poor, then I don't see why pets should be singled out as an immoral way of spending money.
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Re: Not Region-Suitable
Date: 2009-10-18 07:35 am (UTC)But this isn't a zero-sum game. I don't have to spend less on humanitarian crises to buy a bag of kibble for a suffering dog. I just need to spend a little less this month on Starbucks and shiny new cell phones and the other things that a lot of us in Qatar spend more money on than we really should.
Having a pet, or caring for stray animals, is hardly the most frivolous, wasteful use of money going on in Qatar. Unless you want to argue (as Jesus did) that our obligation to the poor requires us to give up ALL our luxuries so that ALL our income can go to the poor, then I don't see why pets should be singled out as an immoral way of spending money.