Another one Dead…
Please slow down when you are driving.
I have had yet another animal die getting hit by a car. This one was one of the cats.
I’m getting really angry about it. At this rate who needs to spay or nuter them? They have such short life spans anyway!
It is crazy to me that so many people do not care to be careful on the roads and indiscriminatly kill animals and people - simply by not being responsible…
1000’s of people and animals get hit by cars every year, over 20,000 every year, and over 9,000 of those people are children killed by a car not involved in a crash, but from negligence and unawareness.
Those numbers of course don’t even touch on the number of deaths to animals domestic and wild.
Yet these same irresponsible people scream and have fits about guns. Cars kill far more than guns do, but no one seems to care to take care of that problem first.
They are more worried about “peace” than their own killing. And by “peace” they mean no killing world wide. They don’t mean happiness.
If told to give up their car for the goal of no world killing they would fight tooth and nail! They feel it is a neccessity.
(That is how some people feel about their guns, only they actually use their guns to save life by protecting themselves or providing food.)
It’s disgusting and sad.
They would rather have “no killing” due to their own fears about death, than have people be truely happy (which would stop most of any kind of killing–except for food).
Silly people.
It’s like the rich snobs in Vegas here. Most claim they care about the environment and that they are environmentalists. Yet when the airlines decided they were going to fly a different route to save petrol and the route went over these same people’s homes, they had fits and fought it.
Did they REALLY care about the environment? Or did they care about their property values (this coming from people who if the values dropped it would not devistate them)?
Getting rid of guns won’t make people happy either, what makes people happy is love, friendship, community, comradery, understanding, a feeling of belonging and acceptance.
What if instead we use our knowledge and technology wisely? Drive safe on the road. Being responsible with that weapon called a car as well as with guns.
What we really need to do as people is promote the things that create inner happiness and responsiblity.
Then there would be no reason to worry about abuse of power of any kind. Including sexual abuse, and rape (which often occur without a gun involved and are yet some of the more horrible, tragic crimes there are).
Please think about the consequences of your actions.
Be aware - not on auto pilot.
Create what happiness and fullfillment you can in your life and pass it on to everyone around you.
Learn to love better.
Judge less.
And have some safe fun with a community of people who’s company you enjoy! 
Slow down in your car and enjoy life instead of madly dashing to each appointment.
Some of these things might seem vague but will actually help reduce death, increase happiness, and teach responsibility.
And these are what will grow real peace and harmony.
Eldra
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Eithne Said on May 3rd, 2007 at 8:42 pm quote
My sympathy on the loss of your cat. I’ve lost many furry-family-members (3 cats killed by cars after being allowed to play outdoors, and 2 mutts poisoned by someone they wrongly-trusted enough to take food from), and I know that it never gets any easier.
It sounds to me like folks as just as careless down there as they are up here. And if seems to me that many people are selfish and self-centred to the point where they don’t CARE whose family member gets hurt — as long as THEY get what THEY want. I see the same attitude on our roads and on our buses/subways. People will push their way through and expect others to get out of their way — even when it’s a car too impatient to wait for a bunch of pedestrians to finish crossing.
And there’s no shortage of snobs up here either. Many have high public profiles about how wonderful it is to do things that are good for society and the environment — as long as it doesn’t personally limit their own freedom to do as they please (regardless of the cost to others). And the snobs are often major hypocrites too.
I’ve noticed that extreme self-centredness leads to people treating other living beings badly, as well as treating the world around them badly, and eventually leads them into self-destructive behavior as well.
There was recently an offensive ad campaign promoted by our government. It cost half a MILLION dollars, had a tagline of “Flick Off” whose graphic made the “li” in “Flick” look like a stylized “U” and implied that our province would never have any more brown-outs or black-outs if it wasn’t for those stupid-lazy-wasteful teenagers leaving their tvs-and-computers on and the fault of teenagers’ mothers for not policing their teens’ actions enough. It was especially offensive since Statistics Canada data clearly shows that residential power use is the sector with the SMALLEST rate of consumption (very, very far behind commercial and industrial) and is ALREADY the sector with the most responsible consumption.
Even small-and-generally-friendly towns (like mine and where some of my friends live) are polluted by people who act as though they’re entitled to hurt others as they please. And I’ve noticed an increasing number of times per year where I’ve had to be VERY explicit about facing off with guys who I’m sure are stronger than I am, and convincing THEM to back down. In a ideal world, I’d always be able to enjoy a party WITHOUT having my evening soiled by some drunken ape who needs to be convinced to stay out of my space.