Agreed. Childcare, teaching, social work - these aren’t the kind of grin and bear it jobs where you hating being there doesn’t necessarily have to impact the work performed.

I understand. When I started my first student teaching assignment, a friend asked me how I liked it. I told her, man, kindergartners are assholes. They are! But if you can’t love them despite that, you need to find another job.

Yeah, I agree.

Agreed. I’m sorry that a single mom lost her job, but I wouldn’t be comfortable leaving my kids in the care of someone who claimed to hate them. My real sympathy for Walls is for flood of internet hate she’s getting. She has already received her appropriate consequence: she was fired. There is exactly zero need to go…

I’ve got to agree. I don’t have kids, but if I did, I’d want to know the person looking after them generally liked working with kids. Hell, I’d be upset if I found my cat’s veterinarian didn’t really care much about animals. It’s hard for me to have a whole bunch of sympathy here; it always sucks to lose a job — more…

If you have an open dislike of children, chances are you’re not going to be as patient with them when they act like children and not in a cute or funny way. Children are erratic, emotional, defiant, and in some cases extremely cruel. It takes patience, and lots of it, to work with them and (hopefully) correct bad…

Now I kind of want to start an NGO to build safe garment factories in SE Asia. At least keep people from dying in fires and building collapses. Too bad I would have no idea how to begin.

If only they knew how to sew bootstraps for themselves instead.

Every fiber of my being wants it to say “HUG LIFE”.

*sees Frank Miller’s name*

My vet school debt was $177k at time of graduation... she graduated later AND went out of state. I estimate $300k at least. And then laugh my ass off.

I come from a long line of rural farmers and you’re right about the difference in attitudes—but I can’t think of any of them who would kill a cat for no reason and then gloat about it. They’d assume, at the very least, that it was a neighbor’s cat (and a working cat at that, helping with pest control) and wouldn’t…

This isn’t disparate perspectives. The point is that the vet thought it was highly fucking hysterically funny to kill a cat. I don’t have some fixation on dogs and cats as fur babies, but I respect the fact that they’re fellow dwellers on this planet. I also recognize that they can’t always do for themselves what may…

Disgusting to see what type of response? That people actually care about another living being’s life? That this very twisted individual, who had taken an oath as a vet to “do no harm” violated this oath and then bragged about it? That’s incredibly sociopathic behavior. Based on the evidence, she should at the very…

Yes, absolutely HILARIOUS that people are disgusted with the fact that a VETERINARIAN shot someone’s beloved pet for fun, and then gloated about it. Clearly, we’re the sick ones, who are also incapable of feeling outrage over police killing POC. So funny.

A) Thank you for not posting the photo of her gleefully posing with the pet she slaughtered for fun. The story is horrible enough without the visual.

But caring about human life and caring about animal life go hand in hand. Compassion is not something that gets used up. I hear what you are saying that some people care more about animals than they do about people—I’ve met those people too, and while I won’t deny anyone’s racism, I think they’re also very damaged by…

And, if she’s so concerned about the feral cat problem, she has the resources to spay and neuter.

It’s a bummer that you mistakenly feel like people can only care about one thing at a time AND that you think animals are merely some sort of Cartesian clockwork tool you can dispose of when they are no longer “useful.” I see your smug self-righteousness and raise you an “I think your callous disregard for life is…

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