Thursday, May 08, 2008

• The epic summary of 2W, part 5: On animals

  While building robots may not allow time for much of anything else, you can always make time for your favourites.  For me, this includes regular episodes of Law and Order.  Once during the course of the term, I watched an episode (don't remember which one, but it's in Season 18) where Detective Lupo makes a comment to Detective Green, something along the lines of "when an animal dies everyone goes up in arms, but when a little girl dies no one cares".  (They had just passed some kind of protest about the welfare of animals as they entered the courthouse, and they were involved in a case with a dead girl.)

  I thought that this was an odd comment to say, but could it have an element of truth here in Toronto?  When a person is murdered, only politicians and the police are making statements about banning handguns (for example).  When pit bulls attack a person, animal support groups (for lack of a better phrase) go and protest outside the legislature (pit bulls are illegal in Ontario and if found, must be euthanized except under special conditions, and legal protests are A-OK).  Maybe as an engineering science student I'm not really in touch with who's saying what... but does this really have any element of truth to it - that people will band together for the protection of animals, but not the safety of children?

   

  The next part (6) is on protests and strikes.

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