Why do people who complain that our municipalities are incapable of offering proper shelter to dogs not worry about the pathetic shelter offered to refugees and victims of political persecution?
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Why should the onus of alleviating the sufferings of the homeless, migrants, refugees or the victims of political persecution lie on the middle class only?
Human misery and suffering across the globe has largely been caused by humans themselves. Only a fraction of it could be attributed to animals.
To me, love for animals transcends class and all voices of harmonious coexistence should be encouraged and applauded.
The ” middle class’s “spontaneous outcry in the defence of the voiceless is not a binary either.
Bro, it’s not about dogs please. It’s the power of NGOs over our topmost institutions like Supreme Court, Parliament, media etc. Just imagine the power of NGOs which compelled Supreme Court to review it’s decision about stray dogs within two days on emergency. Remember Tigar Memon, ? Remember how CJI was pulled out of live public event to facilitate bail for Teesta? But question is why ? The short answer may be “To keep Indians and their topmost institutions engaged in trivial issues .
There is a simple reason. Fighting for dogs is easy as they dont place any demands on you or prick your conscience with their humane stories . Fighting for fellow humans needs personal sacrifices that most middle class will not like to take.
No, it doesn’t, Headline should be, it matters most to fake Elite people of Tier-1 cities, with emotional and even psychological problems…
Have you seen any protest outside Metro cities, in tier -2,3 cities? No… because they have balanced views…
You won’t see them crying like child over these reasons, these are all Papa ki Pari type people…Sorry for my rant…but that’s the truth…
These people will not give any solution, they will not help in finding path, they just want a reason to candle march and rasta bandha…
Being dog lover, showing empathy towards them doesn’t mean you show apathy towards little children who lost their lives or gets scars for rest of their lives….
Disagreeing with you. I think it is the rich and upper class people like you who have this fantasy of being a dog saviour. Most middle class people bear the brunt of these stray dog attacks resulting in death and more than that it results in the fear of moving on foot around the locality. Blaming everything on middle class is nothing but shifting blame. See the supporters commenting against the stray dogs shelter scheme, you will know whether they are from middle class or any other class. I understand it is easy to blame the middle class as they don’t have a star voice. Or what I understand is that now even the rich in India are called middle class , which means we need to call the current middle class as lower class as per your dictionary
Middle class wants a smaller problem to deal with. Stray dogs are a smaller problem than homeless humans.
It’s interesting how local and regional leadership is unable to solve even basic local problems.
You got your classification wrong. Majority of the ones “weeping” for the stray dogs are not from “middle class”, they are either from the “upper middle class” or rich. And you are not ‘middle class either!
You raised the right question but failed to provide the answer. Here is the answer- ‘Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs’ is at play here. As per this model of motivation, Indian Middle Class, having all its ‘lower needs’ like Physiological, Safety, Love & Belonging and Esteem (in that order only) taken care of, are using the so called “dog-love” for their ‘Higher Needs” to be satiated. That is why only middle class champion this dubious cause and not poor who are still struck in the mesh of their ‘lower needs’. At best so called Dog love is a Quirk and at worst it is nothing more than Goondagardi. Please check those threatening audio clips on google of a certain female neta, to those who dared to oppose the Stray Dogs. There are Dog Lover gangs in each Delhi tony colony willing to resort to physical violence at the drop of a hat. Here, a more logical question (s) to ask is : Are Dogs in India an endangered species or a food delicacy like chicken or generally hated (like snakes) by people.? Obvious answer is -NO. Hence the conclusion: Dog Love is a quirk and a personal psychological/Social requirement of elites of India. Dogs need protection from Dog lovers and not Dog Victims.
we are in the practice of oppressing people since the thousands of years. The existence of an oppressive, exploitative, tyrannical and inhuman caste system in the society has trained us to be inhuman towards the downtrodden – they are the downtrodden because of us. The existence of caste system since thousands of years have established beyond any doubt that the Indian society is the most violent society on earth.
Why should the onus of alleviating the sufferings of the homeless, migrants, refugees or the victims of political persecution lie on the middle class only?
Human misery and suffering across the globe has largely been caused by humans themselves. Only a fraction of it could be attributed to animals.
To me, love for animals transcends class and all voices of harmonious coexistence should be encouraged and applauded.
The ” middle class’s “spontaneous outcry in the defence of the voiceless is not a binary either.
Bro, it’s not about dogs please. It’s the power of NGOs over our topmost institutions like Supreme Court, Parliament, media etc. Just imagine the power of NGOs which compelled Supreme Court to review it’s decision about stray dogs within two days on emergency. Remember Tigar Memon, ? Remember how CJI was pulled out of live public event to facilitate bail for Teesta? But question is why ? The short answer may be “To keep Indians and their topmost institutions engaged in trivial issues .
The big difference is that Dogs cant speak for themselves while humans can and Dogs are more faithful than humans
There is a simple reason. Fighting for dogs is easy as they dont place any demands on you or prick your conscience with their humane stories . Fighting for fellow humans needs personal sacrifices that most middle class will not like to take.
No, it doesn’t, Headline should be, it matters most to fake Elite people of Tier-1 cities, with emotional and even psychological problems…
Have you seen any protest outside Metro cities, in tier -2,3 cities? No… because they have balanced views…
You won’t see them crying like child over these reasons, these are all Papa ki Pari type people…Sorry for my rant…but that’s the truth…
These people will not give any solution, they will not help in finding path, they just want a reason to candle march and rasta bandha…
Being dog lover, showing empathy towards them doesn’t mean you show apathy towards little children who lost their lives or gets scars for rest of their lives….
Sane voices should prevail.
Disagreeing with you. I think it is the rich and upper class people like you who have this fantasy of being a dog saviour. Most middle class people bear the brunt of these stray dog attacks resulting in death and more than that it results in the fear of moving on foot around the locality. Blaming everything on middle class is nothing but shifting blame. See the supporters commenting against the stray dogs shelter scheme, you will know whether they are from middle class or any other class. I understand it is easy to blame the middle class as they don’t have a star voice. Or what I understand is that now even the rich in India are called middle class , which means we need to call the current middle class as lower class as per your dictionary
Middle class wants a smaller problem to deal with. Stray dogs are a smaller problem than homeless humans.
It’s interesting how local and regional leadership is unable to solve even basic local problems.
You got your classification wrong. Majority of the ones “weeping” for the stray dogs are not from “middle class”, they are either from the “upper middle class” or rich. And you are not ‘middle class either!
You raised the right question but failed to provide the answer. Here is the answer- ‘Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs’ is at play here. As per this model of motivation, Indian Middle Class, having all its ‘lower needs’ like Physiological, Safety, Love & Belonging and Esteem (in that order only) taken care of, are using the so called “dog-love” for their ‘Higher Needs” to be satiated. That is why only middle class champion this dubious cause and not poor who are still struck in the mesh of their ‘lower needs’. At best so called Dog love is a Quirk and at worst it is nothing more than Goondagardi. Please check those threatening audio clips on google of a certain female neta, to those who dared to oppose the Stray Dogs. There are Dog Lover gangs in each Delhi tony colony willing to resort to physical violence at the drop of a hat. Here, a more logical question (s) to ask is : Are Dogs in India an endangered species or a food delicacy like chicken or generally hated (like snakes) by people.? Obvious answer is -NO. Hence the conclusion: Dog Love is a quirk and a personal psychological/Social requirement of elites of India. Dogs need protection from Dog lovers and not Dog Victims.
what you have said is absolutely correct.
we are in the practice of oppressing people since the thousands of years. The existence of an oppressive, exploitative, tyrannical and inhuman caste system in the society has trained us to be inhuman towards the downtrodden – they are the downtrodden because of us. The existence of caste system since thousands of years have established beyond any doubt that the Indian society is the most violent society on earth.