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- From: judith@super.org (Judith D. Schlesinger)
- Subject: Re: declawing?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.230952.18380@super.org>
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- Organization: Supercomputing Research Center (Bowie, MD)
- References: <18383@mindlink.bc.ca> <1992Dec17.200230.27342@jmb2.jmb.com> <1992Dec19.060150.3859@umbc3.umbc.edu>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 23:09:52 GMT
- Lines: 38
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- In article <1992Dec19.060150.3859@umbc3.umbc.edu> cs431109@umbc8.umbc.edu (cs431109) writes:
-
- <long article in defense of declawing deleted>
-
- Thank you, Mary, for taking the time to write this. I've started on several
- occasions and quit because of time constraints and the anger I feel each
- time I read some of the anti-declawing flames.
-
- A couple of additional points: it amazes me how much the declaw/anti-
- declaw argument sounds like the abortion/anti-abortion argument. In
- some articles, you can replace the word declaw with abortion and not
- have to change another word in the whole thing. On the declaw side,
- people seem to universally say that declawing is not for everyone and
- you have to make an individual choice based on circumstances that only
- you can evaluate; and sometimes you're simply choosing what you consider
- to be the lesser of two evils. Very similar to the pro-choice (pro
- abortion) argument. On the anti-declaw side, people seem to say that
- they would never declaw a cat that lived with them and no one else
- should ever declaw any cat. Sounds a lot like anti-abortion to me.
-
- The bottom line on this, as I see it, is that *everyone* is free to
- choose what they will do but *no one* has the right to dictate to me
- based on their value system. There have been many people who say
- that their cat is more important than any furniture. Well, they
- either have a lot of money to keep buying/repairing their furniture
- or don't mind living in a dump. I don't fall into either of those
- two categories. I adore my cats and give them far more leeway than
- most people would--including many of the anti-claw people we hear
- from on the net--yet, I want to live in a home where my furniture
- doesn't look like I salvaged it from the dump. If some of you think
- that's evil, you're entitled to your opinion. But don't keep trying
- to inflict that opinion on me!
-
- Beyond this, I agree wholeheartedly with all the points Mary made in
- her post. Well said.
-
- Judith and Charlie (declawed) and Sarah (declawed) and BB (jury's still out)
-
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