Love

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Love is one of those words which could easily be misunderstood. It’s over-used today. It can have enough sickly- sweet overtones to stop the word ever being mentioned. But love isn’t quite everything anyway, surely? Life isn’t just a matter of showering love on everything we see. In the material world, we have to attend to needs like clothing and washing, looking after our machinery. However, love can be turned around to be used for good purpose – like when we ‘love’ the fridge. It does a lot for us and deserves to be loved. It keeps our food cool and our beer cold. The fridge and the computer and the car, they each deserve respect, yes, and even love.

Our high-ideal lifestyles often show disrespect for ‘things’, and if we think of animals as mere ‘things’ that same attitude of disrespect is applied to them too, especially if they’re a source of our food.

We’re good at ‘loving’ but not always consistent with it. It’s often completely absent in our attitude concerning cruelty to animals. Somehow, we think it’s normal and therefore okay, because we’re real nice, loving people in other quarters of our life. So maybe, somehow, killing animals could be an act of love!! And the animals pleased to be of service!!