It's important to remember also that our attitudes towards animals are in a tremendous state of flux. Our fore fathers would have been baffled at the concept of "animal rights." As someone pointed out much earlier, different countries have extremely different ideas about what dogs are, and we can't judge them for that unless we want to be judged for our attitudes towards cows.
It's just a fact that the person sitting on your right may wear fur and the person on your left may be appalled that you aren't a vegan. There are a lot of different standards out there these days. |