People who hate people

I'm always amazed at the seemingly normal people who turn out to be people haters. One moment we're talking dolls on Prego, and the next a heretofore sensible fellow collector turns into one of those bitter, poisonous. "down with all humans" types. You know, one of those who think the human race is a virus from which Mother Earth needs to be cured.


Posted by AJ on 6/13/2008:

Don't even get me going about how much I think people "suck" (in my old age, I've come to feel this very strongly!!) LOL! I'll probably get "flamed" for this, but I believe we are the "weakest" link in the animal chain! We are really good at destroying everything this incredible planet has given us! Instead of being "stewards" of the species, we just use 'em up, throw them away, and when a species becomes extinct, we say, "So what! Let's drill for oil right in their breeding grounds"! I guess mankind won't be "happy" (she says dripping with sarcasm) until our great grandchildren can only see animals in books and magazines!!

What kills me is when people like this spew their venom all over the rest of us--uninvited, I might add--and want us to feel horrible for being nasty, dirty humans. But when it comes right down to it, they aren't ready to do the only thing in their power to really help ease their beloved Gaia's suffering; that is to remove their dirty human self from the planet. They go on living, breathing, and polluting just like the rest of us. Apparently it doesn't count when they do it. They must earn some sort of credit by castigating the rest of us.


While what I wanted to do was share my idea on how she could help the earth most by leaving it, I contented myself with composing the most tactful rebuke I could at the spur of the moment.


Posted by Robin in Olathe on 6/13/2008:

Not a flame! Just my 2 cents...I think scorn/anger for the human race is counterproductive. It makes the listener defensive and intractable, plus it marginalizes the hater. In one year Carol B's non-judgmental teaching-by example has done more to make my family increasingly aware and responsible in our attitudes than any amount of angry proselytizing ever did.

People are far more likely to do the right thing when it makes them feel good to do so rather than when they're bullied or shamed into it. And why is that a bad thing? It's the way we try to raise our children to be good people, isn't it? Positive reinforcement? People like Carol B understand and accept that part of human nature and use it to gently steer us in the direction we should be going. Result: the world is better and everyone's happy.

Isn't that the nicest way to tell someone "Get off my back, you eco-hag. When I want to be scourged for not being sufficiently enlighted and/or worthy I'll watch CNN."? I got no response from AJ. Must be one of those types who loves to throw their bombs then skitter off rather than risk having to defend their hatefulness to anyone offering a different opinion.


Carol B, BTW, is a doll collector from Oklahoma City that ninjakitty and I met last year at the Ellowyne Mini-Con. She's one of the few people I know who really walk the walk. She's a bat rehabber that spends a great deal of her personal time caring for injured bats and releasing them into the wild. June is usually the time when baby bats are born, so she's just getting into her busiest time of the year. Whenever people show up at a vet's office with baby bats that have been separated from their mothers then vets call Carol. Here's the photo she sent of her first baby for this year, a female red bat just a few days old. That's Carol's thumb she's clinging to. It amazes me that a real living animal can be so tiny.