A gentle summons to all Animal Lovers …

Let’s face it: You are essentially a Good Person … I know it … You know it … And probably the vast majority of all your friends & family members & associates & co-workers & classmates know it as well.

You get up each morning intending to make it through the day without hurting anybody or treating anyone unfairly … You go to work … You try to do a good job … You come home … You try to be nice to your partner &/or your kids &/or your folks … You enjoy yourself responsibly in your free time (most of the time) … You go to bed tired — sometimes grateful for a great day; sometimes wishing life weren’t so hard.

You are a Good Person, and that is what Good People do.

Of course, just like all the other Good People out there (including myself), mistakes are made … Sometimes values become partially compromised for comfort; sometimes ethics become gently sacrificed for solace; sometimes morals get lightly plastered with pleasure … We adopt beliefs that contradict our innate understanding of Love, and we adopt customs that violate our own innate sense of Justice & Compassion.

Well, I’ve got some truly Good News: Your mistakes do not define who you truly are, your moral inconsistencies do not brand you a permanent hypocrite, and your reverence of convenience & tradition over doing what you know to be Right does not taint your Soul in any way.

Your mistakes don’t make you “bad”;
they merely show that you have forgotten the Good Person you were …

Your inconsistencies don’t make you “unethical”;
they merely remind you of the Just Person you still are but have forgotten …

Your succumbing to cultural conventions doesn’t make you “immoral”;
it merely awakens you to the Noble Person you can become again.

Amen … Let it be so.

“To think we have such a thing called a ‘slaughterhouse’, where people are actually paid to grab an animal, to use electric prods to force it to go where they want, to jam bolts in their heads, to slice their throats up, to hang them from chains and watch them die — as blood drips out of their throat and their legs kick desperately… To think that even exists, and in the numbers that it does … And we’re not talking about just a few bad people around doing that; we’re talking about this as the NORM … If we can’t STOP and look at that fact and say, ‘Holy Crap! What Have We Done?!?!’, then we are in a dire state indeed.” ~ inspired by David Coles

 

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