Vile

I find it completely vile and reprehensible that anyone could say, in response to a friend's Facebook status about feeling bad that he hit a cat, "Good for you!" COMPLETELY vile. I don't even know who this person is, but I am sure that I could not be friends with someone who could, even jokingly (which I hope was her tone...), rejoice at the death of an animal. Especially a death like that, especially when her friend is upset by it. Being happy about something like that cheapens whatever charitable impulse this woman ever had. It makes her seem cruel and inhuman. It makes me sick to think that life is held so casually in this woman's mind. No, I'm not advocating joining PETA or becoming a vegan or anything, but I think some reverence for divinely-created life is part of what makes us human, part of what makes us different from every other creature.

I'm grateful that I wasn't taught to hate any animal. Yes, I'm arachnophobic, but I will avoid killing them if at all possible. The loss of a life deserves to be mourned, if only briefly, to show respect for who and what we are. The sanctity of life should be respected. The universe seems smaller when we remember that any one of us could die at any moment, and we'd better pray no one rejoices at our death.