You Choose
I saw a statistic - approximately 44 percent of all American families have a dog.
Another statistic - A little bit less than 43 percent have children.
More people have dogs than children. [Well ya know - to have a dog one doesn't get morning sickness or nausea like for a human being. And school tuition is considerably less].
A very large percentage of people surveyed said that if their dog and a stranger was drowning they would save their dog. Like - they don't know or care about the stranger so why should they let their beloved dog die and save the human? I am not comparing this to Nazism but the notion of animals being more valuable that human beings strikes an eerie cord in my Holocaust-Sensitive DNA*.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau's Current Population Survey, in 2014, 47.6 percent of women between age 15 and 44 had never had children, up from 46.5 percent in 2012. This represents the highest percentage of childless women since the bureau started tracking that data in 1976.
My questions are "why" and "is this making women happier"? Maybe more selfish? [Chicken or egg shyla. Are they not having children because they are more selfish or are they becoming more selfish because they are not having children? I would guess that both sides of the chakira are correct].
The average household in 2016 consisted of 3.16 persons [!!!]. [Compare that with religious Jews]. And by golly - what do you serve 0.16 of a human being for dinner? And what do you call him/it? Fraction? "Fraction - come and eat one slice of an apple for dinner!"
I can only lament the very flawed value system of people today and thank G-d that I was raised and taught differently.
What is greater and more rewarding than loving and raising a child???
*Remarkably, as soon as the Nazi Party came to power in 1933, they began to enact scores of animal protection laws, some of which are still operative in Germany. For example, in Nazi Germany, people who mistreated their pets could be sentenced to two years in jail. The Nazis banned the production of foie gras and docking the ears and tails of dogs without anesthesia, and they severely restricted invasive animal research. The Nazi Party established the first laws insuring that animal used in films were not mistreated and also mandated humane slaughter procedures for food animals and for the euthanasia of terminally ill pets. (The Nazis were particularly concerned with the suffering of lobsters in restaurants). In addition, the German government established nature preserves, a school curriculum for the humane treatment of animals, and they hosted one of the first international conferences on animal protection.
I would suggest that the Nazis were concerned with lobsters because they realized that lobsters were FAR better creatures than they were.
