January 22, 2016
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A Measure of Kindness
January 21, 2016, Prescott- I am spending today and tomorrow with fourth graders at a small elementary school, on Prescott’s north side. It’s a welcoming place, that has offered me continuity, over the years. I will miss that, in the latter part of next week, but one must choose, and move forward with those choices.
Here’s a bit of speculation, on a different note:
Is it ethical to practice vivisection on ants?
Looking at the segments of the writhing forms,
whilst knowing full well none of them may register a plaint.
The susurration of a shocked animal-rights advocate, in Scandinavia, may be the norm.
Yet, would it be any less barbaric, for a horseshoe to land on the insects, as they herd their aphids, among their plants?
(The above is in response to another prompt, in the Winter Scavenger Hunt).
Comments (4)
I think the majority of the truly radical antivivisectionists are in England and possibly in the democratic countries of Europe. The question of where to draw the line is one we have struggled with for ages. Seems we can't even agree on when life begins...
living up north, as kids we would collect the ants and put them in "ant farms" to keep as pets and watch. Here in the south they bite hard and noone would consider trying to pick them up, lest a whole swarm of them attack.
@murisopsis: Some people don't think anyone matters much, until they're 18. To me, life begins at conception.
@Crystalinne: The fire ants surely know how to defend one another!