Americans tend to think in moral absolutes about everything, and from their moral absolutism have an unwavering delusional confidence that they are ‘correct’ because of their feelings. It’s why we are so backwards in so many ways.
Birds good, cats bad. Full stop. If you don’t agree you are evil and clearly support bird genocide!
No other possibility is allowed in the discussion, like understanding that systems are complex and/or that not all cats are the same, or that the studies often quoted on these issues are flawed and problematic in many ways. And that the general solution to the problem… the control of the feral cat population, is one both ‘sides’ already agree on. Because there is no ‘drama’ in that. It’s much more dramatic to scream at every cat owner they are a evil person if they allow their cat outside at any time ever.
Americans tend to think in moral absolutes about everything, and from their moral absolutism have an unwavering delusional confidence that they are ‘correct’ because of their feelings. It’s why we are so backwards in so many ways.
Birds good, cats bad. Full stop. If you don’t agree you are evil and clearly support bird genocide!
No other possibility is allowed in the discussion, like understanding that systems are complex and/or that not all cats are the same, or that the studies often quoted on these issues are flawed and problematic in many ways. And that the general solution to the problem… the control of the feral cat population, is one both ‘sides’ already agree on. Because there is no ‘drama’ in that. It’s much more dramatic to scream at every cat owner they are a evil person if they allow their cat outside at any time ever.