Animal abuse... what about human abuse?

I agree to SOME extent however you have made some pretty big assumptions:

'Animal abuse??? Why don't "pet people" ever acknowledge CHILD abuse.'

I'd bet most of them very probably DO actually.

'Anyone who consciously harms animals is doing so to express anger. This doesn't come out of no where. This is is someone that has without a doubt, either been abused themselves growing up, or has watched abuse taking place regularly.'

Without a doubt? OK how can you be certain they don't simply lack empathy & don't even appreciate another being is suffering? They may simply be solipsistic.

Child abuse isn't institutionalized. It's illegal, in all forms- but animal abuse is legal if it's done by corporations. Animals also don't have a human voice- children do, as well as advocates and programs in place to remove those children, give therapy to those children. Animals, on the other hand, are more likely to be put to death even after being removed from such bad situations.

I agree, the irony is that these environmentalists care more about animals being abused more than children being abused. They care more about a little robot programmed to do only certain things, rather than a self-conscious, unique being that is intelligent. It's just wrong if you ask me. They just think of us as horrible people because we drive cars that pollute. When they try to fix the pollution, they think about the poor plants and animals more than us. Not saying that it's not wrong to abuse an animal or anything like that. I just think that each of us are more important than an animal.

Bravo. Very well said. A tip of the hat.

Which is saying something coming from someone who's all hat!

I would add this - I think it's easier to look further out from us and address things not so close to home. Oh that poor dog or cat. Well I can fix that with a $30 donation. But oh that poor child? Yike - I might have to really do something to fix that - possibly something effortful, even something * gasp * that would require ME to change in some way -

About that cat ...

"Oi blame society!" While being abused raises the chance that someone will be an abuser, not every abuser was in fact abused. As to why pet people never acknowledge child abuse, the historic case of Mary Ellen Wilson which led to the foundation of the New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children comes to mind. Nobody would do anything until they went to the founder of the ASPCA.

The broad jump of “an animal abuser was abused” is a bunch of monkey crap. Some abuse animals because they consider them pests. Some do so because they consider it a game. Some do it because they hate the person that owns the pet.

Agree

300% agree.

Heck we ought to give messed up kids animals to abuse.

You dont need to pick one or the other, you can care about both animals and kids