Keeping It Cool

2026:

Our aim should be ‘not-confronting’, which means we are, by nature, super-uncomfortable with any sort of unfriendly confrontation. Go in softly. Gauge a person’s actual interest. Be friendly. It’s what most of us want from others. Any interaction needs to be interesting but safe. We all love a good fight that doesn’t involve violence. Most of us have grown up in relative peace, expecting no hostile attitude from those we meet. Here, when we’re advocating for animals, the advocate is representing an important movement. We are promoting a whole different attitude which involves liberating animals. We’re setting standards of behaviour as well as disseminating information. We’re self-appointed ambassadors for the voiceless, and if they could speak I think we’d find they wouldn’t be speaking with violent voices. They’d want to keep the peace (dealing with the highly volatile humans who can be so dangerous). Even in the most heated exchanges with other people, over the question of animal rights, why would we lose our cool, over anything?