"I totally get the dirtiness of the fur industry and how terrible it is to animals. But it's not something that's the No. 1 priority in my life. There are humans dying everyday. There are thousands if not millions of homeless people in New York City. Look at what just happened in Haiti. I tend to focus my energy, if there is a cause, on humans. While that may be callous and bad of me, it's my choice.
Every skater is wearing skates made out of cow. Maybe I'm wearing a cute little fox while everyone else is wearing cow, but we're all still wearing animals."
Good, effing, boy. Seriously. This is what I think every time I hear about some stupid animal rights crusade. More people are willing to pay for ridiculous veterinary bills than they are for their own health insurance. JUST SAYING.
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I'd just like to take this moment to say that PETA is incredibly annoying.
Hey, Alyssa, somehow I ended up on this post :P
You really have to keep in mind what Weir is saying here. He's saying that his personal focus (I'm guessing for charity/activism?) is humans. That doesn't mean, no matter how much bold you add on it, that the people who choose to support different causes (animal, environmental, educational, political, theatrical, the list goes on endlessly, really) are wrong in any way. This is the problem here. All the time I hear the argument that animal activists should be focusing on "bigger problems." But if you adopted a dog that was abused in a dog fight, then maybe animal rights is (rightfully)the biggest problem to you. If you grew up in poverty, that might be the biggest problem to address, for you. If you grew up surrounded by art and theatre and recognize how it betters a youth, that might just be the biggest issue to you. And if you grew up on a farm that was run into the ground by government subsidies, that might be the biggest problem to you. Everyone has INDIVIDUAL problems to deal with, and telling someone or a group of people that they are in some way wrong for trying to fix the problems they see is just cruel. Isn't it so easy to call activists of any kind crazy or incredibly annoying without looking at the work they've really done or even just why it's important to them? The truth is that we're doing something about it. As for the ways one goes about things, well, that's a different story.
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