Are we suppose to kill anything that is a menace?

What a depressing morning!

The moment I picked up the Sunday Times, I saw the heading "Pigeons: A menace but should they be poisoned?"

We are killing cats because people complain, killing crows because they are irritating (and sometimes they attack), killing rats because they are a nuisance (or perhaps they bite, not too sure), now we are including pigeons to the list! Thanks also to people who are so fond of complaining about nuisances because of their low tolerance level. I think they are the major contributors to the killings!

What else are we going to kill? Are we starting a culture that we are to kill anything that appear to be a menace? This is a depressing society.

One of the reasons is because of the bird droppings that people complain about - the mess they leave behind and health hazards. I am just wondering how would you expect birds to 'do their business'. A senior consultant has also commented that all birds, not just pigeons, are potential sources of infection. Well done, shall we now include ALL birds into the killing list? Are we ever ending?

It has come to a point where I am reminded of people of some tyrannic dynastic eras when anything or anyone who came into the way of others (usu the powerful) would be killed/executed.

Yes, we are considered the smartest creature on earth (sometimes I wonder if this is true) but the world is not exclusive to the human kind! Do we have that we are the lords and the rests are just slaves kind of mindset?

Is killing the only way out?

There are also many irritating (to the extend of being menace) people around us who urinate in corridors, void decks, lifts; people who spit like nobody's business; people who spit out food to the floor in hawker centres; people who drip laundry water out of the window. Some of these acts also cause the spread of diseases or irritation.

What are we to do with the above, authorities? Kill also?

It is really very troubling! I would really hate this society and the people in it if this is the way we are going toward. I cry for the creatures that have to suffer at the whims and fancies of the human kind. What a shame!

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